You can now invest in reverse-engineered UFO technology. But no, you can't see it.

TAKE ALL MY MONEY TO ERIDANI 13

https://www.ft.com/content/7b83f0f5-4d03-40c4-b79d-36cc4e247d54?shareType=nongift

It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead.

There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-battery-storage-business-to-power-data-centers-and-the-grid/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/115725637952577930

I played both closed alphas of Marathon, and I liked it better than ARC Raiders—and I really like ARC Raiders. (I’m about to do the big wipe after hitting level 75 amassing 5 million credits.)

This genre is not for everyone, and Marathon is considerably harder and more brutal than ARC Raiders. But if it looks at all interesting to you, I encourage you to check it out…in March 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjzmhROTv28

ArroSlide - Maury McCown
https://macthemes.garden/themes/9b94faa88e0a-ArroSlide

Today I got my periodic reminder of how much I fucking despise Python, and every so-called tool that has chosen to depend upon Python. Fuck this whole "ecosystem". I mean really get right up in there and fuck it. mesa-25.3.1# meson setup build ... Program
https://jwz.org/b/yk0h

Come join me and Allie Brosh for the first ever screening of “My Dog: The Paradox.”

https://theoatmeal.com/blog/dog_paradox_premiere

One things kids of today will never know is the immense trepidation of carrying home the potential bomb of a paper school report in their bags

I’ve gotten a bunch of #kaliyana pieces and as much as i love them, i can’t really wear them. They’re meant to be very size inclusive, but if you’re below about a size 10-12, they don’t just look not great - you’re going to have trouble even keeping them on.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffehobbs/115726189267793628

“For years I treated HDMI-CEC like a house spirit: sometimes helpful, mostly temperamental, never fully understood.”

https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/

Cartoon by Joe Heller.

This from Wil Wheaton is lovely (and it opens with what is probably my favorite paragraph in all of literature)

Later in the piece he says this

https://wilwheaton.net/2025/12/this-is-such-a-painful-loss-my-heart-is-broken/

“Gnome bans AI-generated extensions”

even the fucking gnomes are out

Making sure Olympic-level HDMI-CEC hater @siracusa sees this one:

https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/

It's odd to find myself in total agreement with Rand Paul, but he's on the money here and I’m glad he’s speaking out.

On Dec. 15, the White House announced an executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. The order claims that fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic and warns about its potential use by adversaries in a terror attack. Read the order, from Peter Beck. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/executive-order-designates-fentanyl-as-weapon-of-mass-destruction

How come sirs are always causing trouble specifically at Wendy's? There are other restaurants, you know.

#shitpost #Wendys

💝 If you're ever gifting a Playdate and you'd like to present the recipient with a fun placeholder while they wait for their little yellow console, we made a papercraft model to cut and glue together. Plus, a "yours soon" card.

⬇️ https://help.play.date/orders/gifting-printout

I was the engineer on a certain artist's solo album in the 90s. This arrogant helmet treated us and his own musicians abysmally. Several of us are on the opening track at a barely traceable level, whispering, "Cuuuuunt, [REDACTED] is a cuuuuuunt".

I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html

and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

I hope you can make it!

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