Johann Lau
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We can fight and we can win
City ends Flock pilot program over federal data base concerns - Cville Right Now
The city had paused using the video license plate reading system in October. Now, it announced it won't be resuming using it.
cvillerightnow.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We can fight and we can win
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This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
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Am 16. Dezember 1992 verlegte der Künstler Gunter Demnig den ersten Stolperstein in Köln mit dem er vor der letzten bekannten Adresse des Opfers des Nazi Unrechtsregimes ein Zeichen setzen wollte, daß diese Menschen nicht vergessen sind und nicht vergessen werden dürfen.


December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Am 16. Dezember 1992 verlegte der Künstler Gunter Demnig den ersten Stolperstein in Köln mit dem er vor der letzten bekannten Adresse des Opfers des Nazi Unrechtsregimes ein Zeichen setzen wollte, daß diese Menschen nicht vergessen sind und nicht vergessen werden dürfen.


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There are many interpretations of Hanukkah, including resilience in the face of tyrannical empires attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community.
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
There are many interpretations of Hanukkah, including resilience in the face of tyrannical empires attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community.
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
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"Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code that software developers were in charge of."
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.
www.businessinsider.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code that software developers were in charge of."
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
> Near the top of the list: Urban VPN Proxy. A Chrome extension with over 6 million users. A 4.7-star rating from 58,000 reviews. A "Featured" badge from Google, meaning it had passed manual review and met what Google describes as "a high standard of user experience and design."
8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by
www.koi.ai
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
> Near the top of the list: Urban VPN Proxy. A Chrome extension with over 6 million users. A 4.7-star rating from 58,000 reviews. A "Featured" badge from Google, meaning it had passed manual review and met what Google describes as "a high standard of user experience and design."
Ghouls vs. the person they stand on so they might seem a little taller.
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Ghouls vs. the person they stand on so they might seem a little taller.
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
> Walmart appears to be a low-cost retailer, but that’s because it induces its suppliers to push prices up at rivals. The net effect is less competition at every level.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
> Walmart appears to be a low-cost retailer, but that’s because it induces its suppliers to push prices up at rivals. The net effect is less competition at every level.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
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An entire generation lost, toiling in the content mines, producing content of worsening yield and decaying quality, only to be replaced by robots capable of reaching true rock bottom.
December 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
An entire generation lost, toiling in the content mines, producing content of worsening yield and decaying quality, only to be replaced by robots capable of reaching true rock bottom.
"voters are less obsessed with manners and more interested in prices"
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
Even In a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power
Democratic voters have turned against big business, but only the progressive faction of the party has listened. This distance between voters and leaders is unusual and can't go on forever. Or can it?
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"voters are less obsessed with manners and more interested in prices"
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
> People told her stories of being kicked out of their synagogues or their family table for their opposition to the war and the political project of Zionism. If they were going to stay Jewish, they needed somewhere to do it.
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
> People told her stories of being kicked out of their synagogues or their family table for their opposition to the war and the political project of Zionism. If they were going to stay Jewish, they needed somewhere to do it.
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it's actually worse. not only are AI aggregators (including Musk's lobotomized Grok) spreading this myth, it's entirely based upon an 'article' written by AI originally posted by a website with an Icelandic ISP
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
it's actually worse. not only are AI aggregators (including Musk's lobotomized Grok) spreading this myth, it's entirely based upon an 'article' written by AI originally posted by a website with an Icelandic ISP
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Poland states the obvious: EU and NATO member state Hungary is an ally of Putin’s Russia Russia
December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Poland states the obvious: EU and NATO member state Hungary is an ally of Putin’s Russia Russia
"People abroad see freedom as this stable platform where they can build their identity. Russians often see it as a slippery surface where you can lose everything you managed to hold on to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
I Grew up in Russia. Here’s why we’re afraid of Freedom.
YouTube video by Silent East
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"People abroad see freedom as this stable platform where they can build their identity. Russians often see it as a slippery surface where you can lose everything you managed to hold on to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
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BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
1,072 incidents involving 1,955 drones in 2025 alone [..] Forty-five percent occurred in evening hours. Drone swarms flew “almost exclusively over or near military installations.” [..] In 88 percent of cases, authorities couldn’t even identify the drone type.
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
www.digitaldigging.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
1,072 incidents involving 1,955 drones in 2025 alone [..] Forty-five percent occurred in evening hours. Drone swarms flew “almost exclusively over or near military installations.” [..] In 88 percent of cases, authorities couldn’t even identify the drone type.
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
"needing to demonstrate competence rather than simply experience it"
That is so extremely well put.
That is so extremely well put.
He really wants admiration, recognition, and validation.
It’s all grandiosity and self-magnification. He has this desire to build legitimacy, it’s rooted in needing to demonstrate competence rather than simply experience it.
It’s shows he is hypersensitive to criticism or perceived
It’s all grandiosity and self-magnification. He has this desire to build legitimacy, it’s rooted in needing to demonstrate competence rather than simply experience it.
It’s shows he is hypersensitive to criticism or perceived
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"needing to demonstrate competence rather than simply experience it"
That is so extremely well put.
That is so extremely well put.
My charitable reading is those who can't stand the backwardness and regression wander off -- and I hope that is is the case, and not "it's fine for us to look for work in Germany, but not for other people to work here", because I would feel A CERTAIN TYPE OF WAY about the latter.
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My charitable reading is those who can't stand the backwardness and regression wander off -- and I hope that is is the case, and not "it's fine for us to look for work in Germany, but not for other people to work here", because I would feel A CERTAIN TYPE OF WAY about the latter.
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Seems a little wild that DHS would call me out by name and say that this scene is offensive to Christians. I like seperation in my church and state. Moreover, what's offensive to Christians is the dehumanization that DHS and ICE are practicing. That is evil and an offense to God - not my nativity.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Seems a little wild that DHS would call me out by name and say that this scene is offensive to Christians. I like seperation in my church and state. Moreover, what's offensive to Christians is the dehumanization that DHS and ICE are practicing. That is evil and an offense to God - not my nativity.
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It wasn’t even close.
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It wasn’t even close.