Friday, December 5, 2025

Today's news and jokes















Why is it so hard to construct major projects in the US? I looked at TSMC's computer chip factories in Phoenix, a $165 billion investment, and came away with 18,000 reasons. Our story with extraordinary photos from Loren Elliott. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

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— Peter S. Goodman (@petersgoodman.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM








The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM


It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

— David Nir (@davidnir.com) December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM


That's the part that sticks with me. This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something. Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM


Has the MAGA-arms dealer commented on this, or is the topic somehow no longer interesting to him







("The Speaker has clearly and repeatedly stated he is supportive of access to IVF when sufficient pro-life protections are in place, and he will continue to be supportive when it is done responsibly and ethically")







Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands have all withdrawn from #Eurovision2026. Slovenia likely to drop out too. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

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— Laura Slattery (@lauraslattery.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM








UK's Ofcom keeps issuing fines to companies which fail to put adequate age gating into sites. But companies are just ignoring them. Online Safety Act is proving very hard to enact. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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— Joe Tidy BBC News (@joetidy.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM








NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

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— Maggie Harrison Dupré (@mharrisondupre.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
(FWIW. Related: "On one hand, sellers say AI can meaningfully automate large swaths of white collar work, which should in theory help companies save money because they won’t need to pay as many humans. On the other hand, if companies cut jobs while embracing automation, there will be fewer white collar workers buying software subscriptions...Microsoft thinks it can keep selling seat-based subscriptions for products like Office 365—to the AI agents working inside Microsoft’s customers.")







HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends

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— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo.com) December 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM








Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

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— Chris Farnell (@thebrainofchris.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
(Hoping this is real)























Just noticed a bizarre printing error on this Cheers boxset, where for some reason the name of the show is missing. Lends it a real air of menace. "The bar where everybody knows your name, b̫ͯủ̗t̞̄ ̪ͫn͉̋o͖̓b̪͗ȏ̠d͂ͅẏ̲ m̯͕̐̈́̕͢u̻̻ͩ̀͜͞s̶̢̯̲̈̇t̢̡͙͔̽̿ ̴ͣ͒҉̥͈e̵̻̝̐̌͝v̴̸̞͉̏ͦě̵̥̙ͤ̀r̆́͏̸͇̮ ̡̲͙̃̿͝ k̽ͭ̾͏̥͉̙́͝n̴̡̫̫̘͋̈́̓͘o̢̻̗̲ͨͨͬ́͡wͪ͌͒͏̛̝̣̖͞ ̛ͣ̈́̂͏͕̠͜ͅî̶͓̟̜̓̐͝͝t̳̩͓̆́̚͜͠͝s̨̡̛̝̭͉̽̃ͧ ̢̧ͫ̊̏͏̟͇̗N̸̷̊̏̌͂ͭ͆́҉̯͎͎͈̰͈͝͞Ä́͑ͦ̆̑͗͜͏̸̛̯͚̺͓̘̩͘͠M̶̸̲͕̞̠͖̹̈́̇ͦ̑̉ͧ͢͟͜͡E̸̴̢͛͂͒ͬ͋͗͠͏͇͕̣̥̭̜͟"

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— Ste Jormur (@stejormur.bsky.social) October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM








@fanduel Wait for the player in the red hoodie’s reaction 😭 (via X/LaneKiffin) #olemiss #collegefootball #airball ♬ FEVER - BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT








@saraaquinnn my favorite kind of morning 🦦🤍 #otters #morningwalk #coastalliving #seaotter ♬ Time - Angelo De Augustine








@gabbyyyhorne he’s been doing this for like 10 years😂 tell me about your weird dogs! #dogsoftiktok #italiangreyhound #funnydogs #weirdpets ♬ House Tour - Sabrina Carpenter




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