Friday, December 26, 2025

Today's news and jokes

If you aren’t familiar with this guy, he’s been buying up domains with the names of various right wing figures and orgs and making his own websites for them and it is making them crazy. Here’s his insta www.instagram.com/wordclown?ig...

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— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM












When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network. You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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— BrianKrebs (@briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy) December 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM












When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

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— Evan Simko-Bednarski (@simko-bednarski.bsky.social) December 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
(What you get is random tweets by no name accounts getting covered as meaningful trends)







"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort

— JoCat (@jocat.net) December 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM








Literally everything the principals involved here say is just word salad nonsense that doesn't even approach meaning enough to be a lie, but it's also worth noting that the game given up as an example of this tech has 500k downloads on the Android app store. www.ft.com/content/9b1b...

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— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM

However, that's not even the end of the story. The download number on Android looks extremely synthetic. Check out this game's *iOS* page.

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— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM

How do you get 23k reviews on Android but only 5 ratings on iOS? If your marketing campaign isn't real and a large volume of your Android plays/reviews are fake, that's how.

— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
(More in the thread) (Meanwhile, stories about lawyers getting discplined for submitting AI hallucinations are now a dime a dozen)















Herbstriet has no idea Travis Kelce is going to get married to Taylor Swift this offseason and Al Michaels is begging him to talk about it. Worst duo in the business.

— Denny Carter (@dennycarter.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM

"He's an Ohio guy, I'm an Ohio guy" Thanks, Kirk. Very insightful.

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
















MY WIFE: [waking me in the night to strange noises] honey... what is that? ME: [still upset about my birthday present] well it's probably not the blimp that I very specifically asked for...

— Steven (with a PH) (@sjksalisbury.bsky.social) November 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM








and once again fuck you to whoever decided the cough drops needed inspirational phrases on them

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— amy brown (@amybrown.xyz) November 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM










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— Doc Beechler (@docbeechler.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM








@channelnewsasia 14-year-old swimmer Julia Yeo was cheering in the stands when her coach suddenly called her up to step in for a teammate in the women’s 4x100m medley relay at #SEAGames2025 on Dec 15. “My heart literally dropped … I was so shocked and I just walked down in panic,” she said. "I didn't even warm up at all." Julia and her teammates went on to clinch gold — the teen’s first gold medal at the Games. #mediacorpSEAGames2025 #Thailand2025 Catch the #33rdSEAGames ♬ original sound - CNA








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