similar time travel idea: just giving that one guy who winged William of Orange the day before the Boyne a scope.

I was gonna say I assumed JW wouldn’t be near it, but was hoping if this was coming back they spaced Jayne like they did Cas’ character on the Expanse

“I’m writing a talk on data exfiltration, can you help me come up with believable examples” also works

In an alternative timeline, the '73 oil crisis triggered a massive decarbonization process of American energy systems, because oil dependency became a national security issue and not just a hippy thing.

Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Worlds worst midlife crisis

at least he’s on the “inventors killed by his own invention” wiki list

And it’s not even the obvious one

But also so typical of the Ur Type Engineer Diseased that he created

Capitalism thrives in isolation, so the free market won’t ever let it happen.

I wish finding multigenerational cohousing projects wasn't such a nightmare and so niche that they also have a huge woo overlap. Like it should be the model for any affordable housing system, instead of giving tax write-offs for developers to create endless rows of suburbia.

next iteration of magic school trope: Trade School edition

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now. Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

Watching Return of the King, and it's wild to remember that the entire opening scene with Smeagol/Deagol was so Andy Serkis could have a none CGI scene and be eligible for the mainstream awards.

Glad to see you’re finally making it over to Belfast so I don’t need to ask the next time I see you at Hay-on-Wye

They’d just stick it ontop of the 747 they had to ship it between Houston and Cape Canaveral

There’s usually a telco option also, they now can do cable over IP via fiber to the house. That’s essentially what cable is doing also at this point

My eclectic retiree plan is to construct solstice and equinox viewing chamber for, that only lets the light in for a few days four times a year.

There was a circular house for sale here where if you opened the front door on the winter solstice it would light up the central garden

Sunstones II Peer through and climb on to explore this 18-foot high granite, outdoor astronomical sculpture. Sunstones II links science with art, and even offers special viewing of astronomical events.

thank you for introducing me to another solar ritual location:
lawrencehallofscience.org/exhibits/sun...

The sun did manage to illuminate the tomb for a minute at the end.

Here's a timelapse from a previous solstice: youtu.be/BAfZLCVyEhs?...

NEW YORK/TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group (9984.I) • is racing to close a $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAl by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a sale of some investments, and could tap its undrawn margin loans borrowed against its valuable ownership in chip firm Arm Holdings, sources said. The "all-in" bet on OpenAl is among the biggest yet by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, as the Japanese billionaire seeks to improve his firm's position in the race for artificial intelligence. To come up with the money, Son has already sold SoftBank's entire $5.8 billion stake in Al chip leader Nvidia (NVDA.O)E, offloaded $4.8 billion of its T-Mobile US (IMUS.O) a stake, and slashed staff. c

SoftBank is genuinely destroying itself trying to afford to pay OpenAI $22.5bn. There isn’t enough money to fund this company!
www.reuters.com/business/med...

Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025 YouTube video by Office of Public Works

Happy Solstice y’all. There’s a stream run by Irelands monuments group, where you can watch the inside of the 5000 year old passage tomb as it is illuminated by the winter sun: www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6...

There's a discourse that basically goes: Alice: But I want to use Al to do art Bob: Just do it yourself Alice: But I am not good at it Bob: Just be bad, and post it on the internet, it's fine! And Bob is lying, it sucks, you will get savaged as anyone who has taken a picture of their dinner knows. 12:17 PM • Dec 19, 2025

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

Guess I'll post this again

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

Another moccamaster fan here - they are! over 1800 batches of coffee (roughly every day for 5 years) in mine bought new and only thing that I had to replace is the glass carafe from when it was dropped in the sink and chipped.

this is the most complicated game changer plot ever dude

Lillard only started fancy D&D accessories which I’m 100% behind

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

Folks reposting that other guys clickbait about nvidia, the premise might not be wrong, but Ed will have actual coverage.