Turning Point USA wurde 2012 von Charlie Kirk und Bill Montgomery gegründet. Zwei ihrer Gründungsprinzipien waren eine ausgeprägtere Waffenkultur und das vollständige Fehlen von Covid-Beschränkungen.

Bill Montgomery starb an Covid, und Charlie Kirk wurde erschossen.

#Karma

“By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque” … an important heritage moment on the streets of Toronto (by artist Sarah Lazarovic).

Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave
L: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gsurman_our-beloved-irreplaceable-daughter-annie-activity-7407842359826120704-kFaq
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403128
posted on 2025.12.27 at 11:57:36 (c=3, p=15)

The MCRN Hammurabi.
#PixelArt #Pixelorama #TheExpanse #MastoArt

Progress from today! We now have a train station, rails, electric poles, a river and more!
#pixelart

the finally made antivirus for Linux users

Kleiner Hinweis: Wenn du - schon wieder - dein Kind vergisst dann bezahlst du still die Rechnung für den Scheiss Zimmerservice und hälst einfach den Rand! Du meckerst nicht, du machst deinem Kind keine Vorhaltungen, du bezahlst, hältst deinen Mund und umarmst dein Kind.

@stux My Mother had radical surgery on one leg, lived in an iron lung, and spent the rest of her life disabled. And because of the disability, she was unable to exercise and died in her 70s. But when the polio vaccine came out, she whipped her kids in to get as fast as she could. And none of her kids got polio. Imagine telling her she should avoid vaccinating her kids.

@kbsez @cstross

Probably a smarter way to do this, but here ya go. Full transcribed in the alt text.

@Photo55 Planetary GNP is on the order of $80-100Tn/year. So this means up to 1.5% of the global economic product will evaporate if the bubble bursts right now. But there's a lot more 2nd-order activity hanging on it, eg. construction, manufacturing. I expect the AI bubble to trigger a full-scale global depression when it pops, not just a US one. 1929 all over again. Or even 1873/1893.

Holy crap what a stat

'Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US an estimated $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct spending. Global AI spending, according to Gartner, is forecast to reach nearly $1.5 trillion this year, putting today's AI boom in the same cash-burning league as two major wars.'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/

@pier reminder that Sam "used-ai-salesman" Altman was non-ironically mentioning building a fscking Dyson Sphere to power "AI".

It is all so dumb it hurts.

@cstross @quinn

To avoid scope creep, start all projects with the largest possible scope.

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