Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

This is supposedly what is causing trucking broker stocks to crash today:

"""
Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without a corresponding increase in operational headcount. Shares of the company soared 12%.

Algorhythm, which had a market capitalization of less than $5 million before Thursday, previously operated as The Singing Machine Company, Inc. — selling karaoke products — until rebranding in 2024 as an AI logistics firm. The company reported less than $2 million in sales for the quarter ended September 30, with a net loss totaling nearly $3 million for the period.
"""

(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/logistics-stocks-sink-ai-fear-193327489.html)

"Australia should ostracise, not welcome" the visit of Israeli President Herzog.

Professor Ben Saul, UN Special Rapporteur

So Herzog will make an Official Visit to Parliament on Tuesday and journalists have been asked not to report on it. This is really bad. https://bsky.app/profile/nickfeik.bsky.social/post/3me6doslork2b #BanHerzog #auspol #Gaza #StopIsrael

Waiting for America to improve itself is about as useful as giving Enron more time to explain it's books.

Protesting #Israel's President Genocide Herzog across Australia. #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #auspol

Wave of Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanon despite ceasefire
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/31/wave-of-israeli-air-strikes-hit-southern-lebanon-despite-ceasefire?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

Ocean waters are aging? What?
Yes: we oceanographers call 'age' the time since deep ocean water was last in touch with the atmosphere. It is a measure of 'ventilation', deep vertical overturning of the ocean.
Data show this process is slowing: #AMOC slowdown.
That is bad news for climate, and there is a serious risk of the AMOC crossing a tipping point in the next few decades towards an unstoppable shutdown. One of the worst-case climate change nightmares.
https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/belueftung-des-nordatlantiks-nimmt-ab

In Narromine, did Kubla Khan
A statue of Glenn McGrath decree
Outside the railway siding park
With barbecue, and amenities

A horrifying story came out today of a young adult who attended an ICE protest in Santa Ana four days ago and lost an eye to ICE.

ICE agents shot him at point blank range in the face with a 40mm launcher.

https://people.com/protester-21-permanently-blinded-by-federal-agent-while-protesting-ice-aunt-says-11884591

#FuckICE #SantaAna #ReneeGoodProtests

“A company subject to the extraterritorial laws of the United States cannot be considered sovereign for Europe.“

Discover more about the issues with the US CLOUD Act and the chances of Europe to break free from #TechDependency, in The Register’s new story 👇

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/

Notice the NYT's framing here: a near "disaster" means that the aggressors almost didn't succeed in their invasion. (That they did end up succeeding was of course a disaster for the 80 people they killed.)

Let's ask the real question:

Firefox users,

do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?

@firefoxwebdevs
@davidgerard
@tante