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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638

#pitchforks

With utmost apologies to the bard, and some blame due to Ed Zitron:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's Enron?
Thou art more sound, yea and more transparent:
Rough winds do shake the darling stock p'sition,
And summer's lease was all on capex spent;
Sometime to run the H100 hot,
And quickly gold depreciation DIMM'd;
And every debt from debt again begot,
By chance or flash's changing course unTRIMm'd;
But thy eternal stock price shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that debt thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as Lambda lives, and too CoreWeave,
So Long live Special Purpose Entities

https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

#NVidia #Enron #AI #bubble #AIBubble

"Spending money makes a CEO look busy. And at a time when there were no other potential growth avenues, AI was a convenient way to make everybody look busy."

-Ed Zitron, "NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

#APileOfShitThisBigMUSTHaveAPonyUnderneathItSomewhere

https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

Why are you still here? Go read it.

I didn't know that we have Enron, not just WorldCom and Lucent, to thank for some of the dark fiber that has made bandwidth cheap since the noughties. Anyway, this is about NVIDIA. Again.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

Well after reading this long sarcastic newsletter on the whole NVIDIA and AI grift, I gotta assume we are all screwed. Seems extremely likely that the vast majority of GPUs sold that justify NVIDIA being the biggest company by market cap in the world are not even powered up. Which is a good thing because if they were we'd be destroying resources at an even faster rate.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

"Spending money makes a CEO look busy. And at a time when there were no other potential growth avenues, AI was a convenient way to make everybody look busy."

-Ed Zitron, "NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

#APileOfShitThisBigMUSTHaveAPonyUnderneathItSomewhere

"Spending money makes a CEO look busy. And at a time when there were no other potential growth avenues, AI was a convenient way to make everybody look busy."

-Ed Zitron, "NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

#APileOfShitThisBigMUSTHaveAPonyUnderneathItSomewhere

"Spending money makes a CEO look busy. And at a time when there were no other potential growth avenues, AI was a convenient way to make everybody look busy."

-Ed Zitron, "NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

#APileOfShitThisBigMUSTHaveAPonyUnderneathItSomewhere

"Spending money makes a CEO look busy. And at a time when there were no other potential growth avenues, AI was a convenient way to make everybody look busy."

-Ed Zitron, "NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

#APileOfShitThisBigMUSTHaveAPonyUnderneathItSomewhere

European countries are heeding the call:

“Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, and services that make up their online presence. Up until this point, social media has not been a part of this conversation. We think it is time to change that.”

It’s not just ‘time to change’ it’s bloody well getting late in that change happening. This is partly due to neoliberal-think which favours the ‘markets’ (whatever they might be) to sort themselves out in such a way to be most efficient (at making profits and syphoning currency out of the economy), which results in deregulation and outsourcing public assets and services as an MO that is the problem here.

#NeoLiberalism #StateCapture #InternetSafe #DigitalSovereignty #Enshitification #TechBros #Grifters #EatTheRich #Antifa

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

The world needs social sovereignty

In a move of modern heresy, the Mastodon blog has called for governments to get out of corporate-owned social media and to federated and free social media. Big business will hate that, but truth should probably be free.

Ask your government if this heresy is right for them (it is).

#government #isHeresyRightForYou #Mastodon #socialMedia

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

European countries are heeding the call:

“Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, and services that make up their online presence. Up until this point, social media has not been a part of this conversation. We think it is time to change that.”

It’s not just ‘time to change’ it’s bloody well getting late in that change happening. This is partly due to neoliberal-think which favours the ‘markets’ (whatever they might be) to sort themselves out in such a way to be most efficient (at making profits and syphoning currency out of the economy), which results in deregulation and outsourcing public assets and services as an MO that is the problem here.

#NeoLiberalism #StateCapture #InternetSafe #DigitalSovereignty #Enshitification #TechBros #Grifters #EatTheRich #Antifa

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

The world needs social sovereignty https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/ "By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay … The promise of the fediverse is the promise of a better way forward: free from ads and manipulative algorithms"

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"If we want an internet where publishers retain autonomy and readers retain agency, we need to treat #RSS not as legacy plumbing but as strategic infrastructure." @ben

I've been using Inoreader for about a year and am pretty happy with it, while @surf is an intriguing option for blending social feeds and I'd love to be able to add regular RSS feeds, too. (EDIT: You can!)

Not having an RSS feed active is like making Instagram your website. Stop it!

#SocialReboot

https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

🔗 Why RSS matters via @ben #Tech #Mastodon #Rss

Yesterday morning, I woke up and checked my news app while still in bed. The headlines from ProPublica, The New York Times, and The Guardian loaded instantly: a curated stream of stories updated overnight. I scrolled through, tapped on a few pieces, then switched over to my podcast app to queue up something for my morning gym session. I queued up three new episodes: one from Search Engine, the...

https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Ben Werdmuller wrote a new perspective on RSS. It's great, just what we need. RSS is of the web, and is the simplest most obvious way to get all the twitter-like systems connected.

https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Ben Werdmuller wrote a new perspective on RSS. It's great, just what we need. RSS is of the web, and is the simplest most obvious way to get all the twitter-like systems connected.

https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post
#googlemaps #restaurants #london

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

"By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter." #Technology https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

And another one from @benwerd

🔗 The world needs social sovereignty https://werd.io/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

#Pebble announced a new smart device and it's not a watch! It's a ring and all it does is capture audio. No cloud service, no server-side AI (it does do local transcription, totally offline) and the trigger is a physical hardware button.

https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
Link: https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661

Ah, the Pebble Index 01: because jotting down notes like a normal human is way too passé. 🤦‍♂️ Forget the joy of pen and paper; let's embrace whispering sweet nothings into a glorified ring to replace our entire thought process. 📿🧠 Remember folks, if it's not in the #cloud, it probably never existed! ☁️💭
https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain #PebbleIndex01 #note-taking #tech #future #computing #HackerNews #ngated

https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain

#HackerNews #NewPebbleDevice #PebbleIndex #ExternalMemory #TechInnovation #BrainTech

A ring mic that's thrown away after "up to two years" is a nonstarter for me. They do say we can ship it back and they'll take care of it, but what does that mean?
I'd feel better about it if the body was reusable aluminum with some story about removing the electronics. An open API is table stakes, too.
I don't doubt that the ring mic would be a handy wearable, though, and I appreciate that they're focused on local-only data.
https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain

Link: https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661

New Pebble Device
https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
#ycombinator

New Pebble Device
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- 16 minutes ago | 12 points | 1 comments
- URL: https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661
- Summary: Pebble Index 01 is a stainless-steel ring that records voice memos when you press its button, instantly sending them to your phone for local transcription and optional note/reminder creation. No charging is required; a silver-oxide battery lasts ~2 years, after which you recycle the ring. The device stores 5 min offline, works with iOS/Android, comes in 3 finishes and sizes 6-13, and is water-resistant to 1 m. Pre-orders are $75 until March 2026 shipments, then $99.

I'm wearing a 3d printed version of the Pebble Index 01 to get an idea of how it would be. While I dislike the not being able to charge, I do like the idea of a device that doesn't require effort. Just a button I can press to get things out of my head.
https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain

Link: https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661

Link: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211802

#linux

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/

#linux

Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know
L: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211802
posted on 2025.12.09 at 17:47:36 (c=0, p=3)

FYI #CVE #linux #kernel #opensource

cc:Greg Kroah-Hartman

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/