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2026 is palindromic in bases 13 (11, 12, 11), 14 (10, 4, 10), 45 (1, 0, 1), 1012 (2, 2) and 2025 (1, 1). #mathsky oeis.org/A216840
A216840 - OEIS
oeis.org
December 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
2026 is palindromic in bases 13 (11, 12, 11), 14 (10, 4, 10), 45 (1, 0, 1), 1012 (2, 2) and 2025 (1, 1). #mathsky oeis.org/A216840
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The Best – and the Wurst – of Neon 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Best – and the Wurst – of Neon 2025.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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©1976 by AVK Electronics
From the AVK Universal Corporate Archives facebook.com/AVKUniversal
From the AVK Universal Corporate Archives facebook.com/AVKUniversal
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
©1976 by AVK Electronics
From the AVK Universal Corporate Archives facebook.com/AVKUniversal
From the AVK Universal Corporate Archives facebook.com/AVKUniversal
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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#EU, be the EU 🇨🇳 experts think you are!
"EU will continue to play a significant role in international affairs, drawing on its achievements in integration, its soft power in global governance, and, when pushed to the brink, its resolve to build hard power"
www.pekingnology.com/p/chinas-ger...
"EU will continue to play a significant role in international affairs, drawing on its achievements in integration, its soft power in global governance, and, when pushed to the brink, its resolve to build hard power"
www.pekingnology.com/p/chinas-ger...
China’s Germany watchers take stock of Berlin’s uneasy turn
A year-end seminar in Beijing maps Germany’s domestic strains, security pivot, and the narrowing room in China–EU ties.
www.pekingnology.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
#EU, be the EU 🇨🇳 experts think you are!
"EU will continue to play a significant role in international affairs, drawing on its achievements in integration, its soft power in global governance, and, when pushed to the brink, its resolve to build hard power"
www.pekingnology.com/p/chinas-ger...
"EU will continue to play a significant role in international affairs, drawing on its achievements in integration, its soft power in global governance, and, when pushed to the brink, its resolve to build hard power"
www.pekingnology.com/p/chinas-ger...
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Schéi Chrëschtdeeg 🎄
(That’s Merry Christmas in Luxembourgish)
(That’s Merry Christmas in Luxembourgish)
December 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Schéi Chrëschtdeeg 🎄
(That’s Merry Christmas in Luxembourgish)
(That’s Merry Christmas in Luxembourgish)
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Hey, let me know which screenshot from our paper you prefer! Happy holidays 😃!
December 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hey, let me know which screenshot from our paper you prefer! Happy holidays 😃!
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." So general settings urgently need a button to completely disable AI features. No more fiddling around in about:config. #mozilla #firefox #ai blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
blog.mozilla.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." So general settings urgently need a button to completely disable AI features. No more fiddling around in about:config. #mozilla #firefox #ai blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
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“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
The wacky things statistical-correlation machine like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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With feathers into the afterlife: New results on the Bad Dürrenberg shaman burial #archaeology
phys.org/news/2025-12...
phys.org/news/2025-12...
With feathers into the afterlife: New results on the Bad Dürrenberg shaman burial
The approximately 9,000-year-old grave of the shaman from Bad Dürrenberg (Saalekreis district) is one of the most spectacular finds in Central European archaeology. Excavated under considerable time p...
phys.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
With feathers into the afterlife: New results on the Bad Dürrenberg shaman burial #archaeology
phys.org/news/2025-12...
phys.org/news/2025-12...
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I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
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Ungleiche Verteilung von Vermögen kennt Martyna Linartas aus ihrer Familie. Ein Gespräch über Erben und Gerechtigkeit, Wahnsinn, Neid und die AfD.
Politologin über soziale Ungleichheit: „Ich habe die Extreme kennengelernt“
Ungleiche Verteilung von Vermögen kennt Martyna Linartas aus ihrer Familie. Ein Gespräch über Erben und Gerechtigkeit, Wahnsinn, Neid und die AfD.
taz.de
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ungleiche Verteilung von Vermögen kennt Martyna Linartas aus ihrer Familie. Ein Gespräch über Erben und Gerechtigkeit, Wahnsinn, Neid und die AfD.
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Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
#AI #RAM
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
#AI #RAM
After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand.
arstechnica.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
#AI #RAM
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
#AI #RAM
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Arrests and killings of political opponents
Natl Assembly shut down
State control over media
Protests banned
Political parties and local councils suspended
False accounts of past elections
All could have happened in South Korea had the people and the parliament not blocked martial law one year ago.
Natl Assembly shut down
State control over media
Protests banned
Political parties and local councils suspended
False accounts of past elections
All could have happened in South Korea had the people and the parliament not blocked martial law one year ago.
What Korea could have looked like had Yoon’s insurrection succeeded
The martial law decree and plans drafted by a shadowy former military commander paint a picture of the type of authoritarian rule that Yoon envisioned, complete with media censorship and the rounding ...
english.hani.co.kr
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Arrests and killings of political opponents
Natl Assembly shut down
State control over media
Protests banned
Political parties and local councils suspended
False accounts of past elections
All could have happened in South Korea had the people and the parliament not blocked martial law one year ago.
Natl Assembly shut down
State control over media
Protests banned
Political parties and local councils suspended
False accounts of past elections
All could have happened in South Korea had the people and the parliament not blocked martial law one year ago.
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Strictly speaking, it's not a façade that's cracking up at 432 Park Ave. in NYC; it's a "load-bearing, concrete exoskeleton." This makes the problem much harder to fix. The engineers called it back in 2012, but hubris and vanity overruled them. lloydalter.substack.com/p/schadenfre...
SchadenfreudeTower in New York City is cracking up
The problems at 432 Park Avenue never end.
lloydalter.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Strictly speaking, it's not a façade that's cracking up at 432 Park Ave. in NYC; it's a "load-bearing, concrete exoskeleton." This makes the problem much harder to fix. The engineers called it back in 2012, but hubris and vanity overruled them. lloydalter.substack.com/p/schadenfre...
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
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The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase ft.trib.al/VGyrH8K
The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase
This is nuts. When’s the crash?
ft.trib.al
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase ft.trib.al/VGyrH8K
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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
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»Das ist eine Revolution: China überrollt die Welt mit Erneuerbaren«
»Teile der Union wissen aber nicht, wie sie moderne Energiepolitik machen sollen, ohne zu "grün" zu klingen. Also verkünden sie aus Trotz lieber das Gegenteil«
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...
»Teile der Union wissen aber nicht, wie sie moderne Energiepolitik machen sollen, ohne zu "grün" zu klingen. Also verkünden sie aus Trotz lieber das Gegenteil«
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...
"Das ist eine Revolution: China überrollt die Welt mit Erneuerbaren"
In Deutschland verkommt "Energiewende" zum Kampfbegriff. Für Tim Meyer ein Fehler. Im Gespräch mit ntv.de bezeichnet er die Erneuerbaren als nichts anderes als eine industrielle Revolution. Leider hat...
www.n-tv.de
October 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
»Das ist eine Revolution: China überrollt die Welt mit Erneuerbaren«
»Teile der Union wissen aber nicht, wie sie moderne Energiepolitik machen sollen, ohne zu "grün" zu klingen. Also verkünden sie aus Trotz lieber das Gegenteil«
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...
»Teile der Union wissen aber nicht, wie sie moderne Energiepolitik machen sollen, ohne zu "grün" zu klingen. Also verkünden sie aus Trotz lieber das Gegenteil«
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...