Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.
https://tcnv.link/zzm0L2p

AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”

https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/

Update. The Danish government is moving away from #Microsoft products to #OpenSource alternatives.
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/

#Denmark

La flamante Comisión Nacional Antimonopolio de #México🇲🇽 (lleva dos meses en operación) se estrena ordenando el fin de los acuerdos de los fabricantes de 'smartphones' con #Google para la distribución exclusiva de #Android y abre la puerta a que puedan incluirse otros sistemas operativos.
#informática #noticias
https://www.gob.mx/antimonopolio/prensa/la-comision-nacional-antimonopolio-impulsa-un-mercado-de-dispositivos-moviles-mas-abierto-y-competitivo-para-las-y-los-mexicanos

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

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@mfennvt @RickiTarr This reminds me of a news show investigating if doctors listened to women. A number of men & women, with hidden cameras, went to various Drs, recited exact same script. Men were immediately sent to have heart testing. Women? “Take a nice bath. You seem a bit stressed. “

El mayor campo solar de China reverdece un desierto... por accidente - (video)
El mayor campo solar de China reverdece un desierto... por accidente - (video) - https://www.meneame.net/go?id=4127677 dedicado a todos los ecologistas que aborrecen los paneles solares porque patatas.

The trailer for Melania Trump’s movie is out. I like the part where she kidnaps the dalmatians to make them into a fur coat

Gesundheit

Threatening to dismantle NCAR, our premier weather and climate research institute (apparently) because Colorado refuses to pardon someone accused of tampering with voting machines is a sad example of our current kakistocracy in action… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

When Your Avian Intelligence Agrees a Little Too Much

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer

Some established browsers are betting their future on incorporating A.I., while A.I. companies are releasing browsers to slurp up your data even more. Here's Vivaldi's CEO @jon at Vivaldi's Reykjavík HQ announcing our 2026 roadmap.

"la polarización..."
taps the sign:

Ayer la Comisión propuso eliminar el proceso de renovación para plaguicidas como el glifosato, que no tendrán que reevaluar su toxicidad periódicamente porque tendrán AUTORIZACIÓN ILIMITADA.

El proceso de renovación ha eliminado 162 pesticidas desde 2011. Quitarlo solo beneficia a la industria☠️.

https://futurosintoxicos.org/2025/12/17/comision-no-reevaluar-plaguicidas/

Brilliant initiative by Julian #Assange!
Represented by #JenniferRobinson, the #WikiLeaks founder submitter a #CriminalComplaint against the #NobelFoundation for its #PeaceNobelPrize to #CorinaMachado

I'm sure the @Vivaldi folks are sick of hearing this feedback, but I'll say it anyway (sorry): the only thing that holds me back from adopting and enthusiastically recommending Vivaldi is that it's not 100% open source.

With Mozilla chasing the AI dragon, now would be a really great time for Vivaldi to take the plunge and go fully FOSS. I don't know that it gains much, if anything, by being just mostly FOSS.

#Firefox #Mozilla #Browsers #Vivaldi

Python expert

El Periódico de Aragón:
«La jefa de gabinete de la Casa Blanca afirma que Trump tiene "personalidad de alcohólico".»

Solo la personalidad? 😅