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Big Banks Enjoy Stealth Bailouts - A DCReport Exclusive

dcreport.org · Dec 30

The NYFed has quietly injected tens of billions into major banks—now with no limit. Unreported policy changes raise fears of another Wall Street bailout.

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Carrie🇨🇦 (@carrieberry) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

AL (not Al) (@alwirtes) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Lenz Grimmer (@lenzgr) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Matt Pollari (@scifi451) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Grassroots Joe (@joeinwynnewood) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 (@paco) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Avi Rappoport (avirr) (@avirr) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 (@saraislet) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

Brian Tatosky (@virtualbri) · Dec 30
🔁 @dangillmor:

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed

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Karbon Based — And Stay Out

karbonbased.io · Dec 30

Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽 (@mdhughes) · Dec 30

karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a
> It took a decade for iOS 7’s damage to be mitigated. I hope we’re not in for another decade of repair to fix Liquid Glass. And more importantly, I hope Apple learns their lesson with Dye and only invests in specialists with the skill and experience necessary to truly lead their interfaces into the future.
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But we are. I loathe the liquid ass UI, and won't be putting it on anything I use until I absolutely have to. And will just have to keep using old apps.
#apple

Luke Dorny (@Luke) · Dec 30
🔁 @garrettmurray:

After reading Louie Mantia’s blog post “And Stay Out”, some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive’s influence on Apple’s interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (@juandesant) · Dec 30
🔁 @brentsimmons:

Karbon Based, And Stay Out:

I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a

Matt Birchler (@matt_birchler) · Dec 30
🔁 @NateBarham:

I worry that we’re going to pendulum-swing back too far, or for the wrong reasons (semi-transparent N64 nostalgia, for example), when I read pieces like these.

The toilet seat iBook is not a “rectangle” and was colorful, but it was in no way even in the same universe of quality as the devices we have today.

And, reducing clutter IS good in software design. The person designing it just needs to know the difference between UI and clutter. Dye clearly does not.

karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a

Granneman 😡 (@Granneman) · Dec 30
🔁 @garrettmurray:

After reading Louie Mantia’s blog post “And Stay Out”, some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive’s influence on Apple’s interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a

Mark Gardner (@mjg) · Dec 30
🔁 @garrettmurray:

After reading Louie Mantia’s blog post “And Stay Out”, some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive’s influence on Apple’s interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a

Dave Winer ☕️ (@davew) · Dec 30
🔁 @brentsimmons:

Karbon Based, And Stay Out:

I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/a

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis

wheresyoured.at · Dec 29

Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

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Kyle Montanio (@FantasticalEconomics) · Dec 30
🔁 @pluralistic:

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

CoolBlenderKitten (@CoolBlenderKitten) · Dec 30
🔁 @lilithsaintcrow:

"Reality ... doesn’t matter to analysts, because stocks are thoroughly, inextricably enshittified, and analysts don’t even realize it’s happening."
wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) · Dec 30
🔁 @ZhiZhu:

@pluralistic

"The dot com bubble was actually a great time to start reevaluating how and why we value stocks — to say “hey, wait, that $2 billion deal will only make $100 million in revenue?” or “this company spends $5 for every $1 it makes!” — but nobody, it appears, remained particularly suspicious of the tech industry, or a stock market that was increasingly orienting itself around conning shareholders."
wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

#Enshittification #Finance #StockMarket #Tech #Technology #AI

Le Big Mac (@marcusosterberg) · Dec 30
🔁 @ZhiZhu:

@pluralistic

"The dot com bubble was actually a great time to start reevaluating how and why we value stocks — to say “hey, wait, that $2 billion deal will only make $100 million in revenue?” or “this company spends $5 for every $1 it makes!” — but nobody, it appears, remained particularly suspicious of the tech industry, or a stock market that was increasingly orienting itself around conning shareholders."
wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

#Enshittification #Finance #StockMarket #Tech #Technology #AI

Shannon Prickett (@Binder) · Dec 30
🔁 @pluralistic:

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

Walt Wooton (@waltwooton) · Dec 30
🔁 @pluralistic:

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

Quixoticgeek (@quixoticgeek) · Dec 30
🔁 @pluralistic:

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

Angela Korra'ti (@annathepiper) · Dec 30
🔁 @pluralistic:

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

Witchzilla (@msbw) · Dec 30
🔁 @lilithsaintcrow:

"Reality ... doesn’t matter to analysts, because stocks are thoroughly, inextricably enshittified, and analysts don’t even realize it’s happening."
wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi

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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

aeon.co · Dec 29

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

Shared by @algernon and 11 others.
C.B.Leslie (@cbleslie) · Dec 30
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Thomas Sturm (@tsturm) · Dec 30
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Luke Kanies (@lkanies) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Nina Kalinina (@nina_kali_nina) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Thomas 🔭🕹️ (@thomasfuchs) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

an exhausted mouse (@algernon) · Dec 30
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Alex (@o_O) · Dec 30
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Joachim (@joachim) · Dec 30
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian: (@shinmera) · Dec 30
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

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Donate to ProPublica

give.propublica.org · Dec 29

Donate today to support ProPublica's singular mission: to produce deep-dive, well-researched, nonpartisan journalism that spurs real-world change.

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Robert M (@rob11563) · Dec 30
🔁 @ProPublica:

No owners. No shareholders. Just 80,000+ people committed to the truth.

Join us by Dec. 31 during our Winter Member Drive:
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#Journalism #Truth #Nonprofit #Media #Charity #Donate #Support

ClaudioM (@claudiom) · Dec 29
🔁 @ProPublica:

No owners. No shareholders. Just 80,000+ people committed to the truth.

Join us by Dec. 31 during our Winter Member Drive:
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#Journalism #Truth #Nonprofit #Media #Charity #Donate #Support

wsm (@weldon) · Dec 30
🔁 @ProPublica:

No owners. No shareholders. Just 80,000+ people committed to the truth.

Join us by Dec. 31 during our Winter Member Drive:
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#Journalism #Truth #Nonprofit #Media #Charity #Donate #Support

Kevin Russell (@kevinrns) · Dec 30
🔁 @ProPublica:

No owners. No shareholders. Just 80,000+ people committed to the truth.

Join us by Dec. 31 during our Winter Member Drive:
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#Journalism #Truth #Nonprofit #Media #Charity #Donate #Support

Mick Collins (@mick_collins) · Dec 30
🔁 @ProPublica:

No owners. No shareholders. Just 80,000+ people committed to the truth.

Join us by Dec. 31 during our Winter Member Drive:
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#Journalism #Truth #Nonprofit #Media #Charity #Donate #Support

Bongolian (@Bongolian) · Dec 30
🔁 @ProPublica:

No owners. No shareholders. Just 80,000+ people committed to the truth.

Join us by Dec. 31 during our Winter Member Drive:
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The Future of Software Development is Software Developers

codemanship.wordpress.com · Dec 29

I’ve been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That’s more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of things chang…

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🫧 socialcoding.. (@smallcircles) · Dec 29

#CodingIsSocial 🫂

"The Future of Software Development is Software Developers"

Of course it is. And it is for anyone who can write a neat script or a macro, hack a nice little website together, selfhost that infra, and do all the countless other creative things that happen in any good #FreeSoftware development lifecycle.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025

#SX #FSDL #Socialcoding

hnbot (@hnbot) · Dec 29

The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers
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- 2 hours ago | 33 points | 9 comments
- URL: codemanship.wordpress.com/2025
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: Veteran developer argues that, like earlier “no-code” waves, today’s LLM hype won’t eliminate programmers. History shows each automation cycle creates more software and more jobs; Jevons Paradox prevails. Generative AI often slows teams and lowers quality, and the real bottleneck remains translating fuzzy human intent into precise computational thought—something natural language can’t reliably express. LLMs lack true understanding, produce inconsistent code, and still require expert oversight. Economic downturns, not AI, drive current layoffs. long-term demand for skilled developers will rebound; modest AI assistants may help, but humans will stay in the driver’s seat.

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Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com · Dec 29

“I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box said.

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Mat (@okwithmydecay) · Dec 29
🔁 @TechDesk:

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. @Techcrunch tells us how creators are navigating social networks that have become increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds:

flip.it/RH1N.T

#Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Algorithm

Regendans (@regendans) · Dec 30
🔁 @BrideOfLinux:

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it, unless you're posting on Mastodon or Bluesky: Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/soci

sjvn (@sjvn) · Dec 30
🔁 @BrideOfLinux:

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it, unless you're posting on Mastodon or Bluesky: Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/soci

Chris Alemany (@chris) · Dec 30
🔁 @TechDesk:

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. @Techcrunch tells us how creators are navigating social networks that have become increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds:

flip.it/RH1N.T

#Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Algorithm

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Who is Flossie the cat? Record holding feline turns 30 years old - Dexerto

dexerto.com · Dec 29

Flossie is a British domestic short-haired tortoiseshell cat who holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest living cat.

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Split Keyboards Are Superior - Aftermath

aftermath.site · Dec 30

Split keyboards are the best, but no company offered one that satisfied me completely. What followed changed my life as a writer forever.

Shared by @DrFerrous and 12 others.
aburka 🫣 (@aburka) · Dec 30
🔁 @molly0xfff:

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

mhoye (@mhoye) · Dec 30
🔁 @molly0xfff:

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

Molly White (@molly0xfff) · Dec 30

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

Dr. Ferrous (@DrFerrous) · Dec 30
🔁 @gedankenstuecke:

«The split keyboard has long been the domain of the tech pervert» - hard to disagree with this 😅

/Cc @pjacock

Split Keyboards Are Superior - Aftermath
aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

mxk (@mxk) · Dec 30
🔁 @molly0xfff:

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

hypebot (@hypebot) · Dec 30
🔁 @molly0xfff:

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Dec 30
🔁 @molly0xfff:

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

Trending Bot (@trending) · Dec 30
🔁 @molly0xfff:

aftermath.site/best-split-keyb

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

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