Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill & trust among its allies, our American moderator was told… America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.
The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because 'we will never fucking trust you again.'
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement."
Anyone startled by that pronouncement is insanely optimistic or incredibly naive. The damage DJT did during his first term would take decades to fix; the damage he's done since is absolutely irreparable. And while you might think that's awful or unjust, they only need to 'never' trust us again for maybe five years. Because there won't be a United States of America beyond that. DJT is running the country like any business that's been bought & is being sold for parts.
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking
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Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin.
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
I want to add onto what this article talks about in regards to funding going towards genetics. It's not just Parkinson's. There's a lot of "Before we do something radical like clean air and water we should spend the rest of our lives making sure it's not something else" in research funding. It's one of the big reasons I eventually went out on my own in my former career as a chemist, and what we found over and over was that your health is largely dictated by what you ingest. And, sadly, you ingest a lot of things you don't want to.
At this point, particularly in the US, no one else is going to clean your water for you, so you'd better be doing it yourself.
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/
EVs made up 25% of global car sales in 2025. In the U.S., they only made up 10%.
"The global and American trajectories in this key clean energy technology are turning in different directions. And with most other countries racing to adopt EVs as a more efficient, cost-effective, and cleaner mode of transportation, China’s growing dominance of this technology may help that country become the next global economic superpower."
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/the-rest-of-the-world-is-lapping-the-u-s-in-the-ev-race/
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
Over on @tedium tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the @404mediaco zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux.
Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
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