Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

next i hope Satya directly addresses this microsoft usage of "gotta". extremely disturbing copywriting to me

No es mío, lo vi hace tiempo en inglés y he tenido que hacerlo y traerlo aquí.

A much-touted 4K remaster of Mad Men recently premiered on HBO Max and they forgot to apply digital effects to scenes in some of the episodes so you can see crew in the background, etc. https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mad-men-in-4k-on-hbo-max-debacle.html

Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

Up until now, it's always remained possible to activate Windows offline, by calling a phone number, going through a lengthy phase of entering digits on your phone dialpad, and carefully listening to and entering a string of numbers on the device you're trying to activate. For a

https://www.osnews.com/story/144113/microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-11-10-without-internet/

#Windows

It's 2026! Time to set some non-negotiables as work on the Web platform ramps up again.

First one up, a two-parter:

a) the Web is for human users and their user agents (aka browsers). Any network activities not directed and vetted by humans and their designated user agents or backend API calls necessary to facilitate those activities should be seen as malware and subject to blocking/banning.

b) This includes any crawlers which are not acting in service to human agency & information retrieval.

this seems to be an example of how software is going to start breaking for everyone now that big companies like Google depend on generative AI to build and maintain it.

for some reason, this request was an edge case, and Google's back end is now too large and unwieldy to properly handle edge cases, so they just don't. https://perishablepress.com/google-broke-my-heart/

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAhahaha*gasp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Update: Hilton corporate apparently overrode the local hotel’s decision and is inviting ICE back in (article downthread). Be sure to find ways to demonstrate to Hilton how you feel about this.

Por cierto, el post este de Reddit de hace unos días sobre un desarrollador de una app de pedir comida a domicilio en el que hablaba de como tenían métricas ocultas y movidas para explotar a los Riders?
Pues parece que era un bulo hecho con IA.
https://www.theverge.com/news/855328/viral-reddit-delivery-app-ai-scam

Esto, por supuesto, no invalida que estas empresas exploten a sus trabajadores (e incluso que algo de lo que dijo sea cierto).

#reddit #bulos #LaPutaIaDeLosCojones #riders

If you are an EU citizen, you might want to install the Citizens’ App made by the European parliament:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/stay-informed/citizens-app

What the AI/robotics "abundance" boosters forget: We already live in a world of material abundance. What is scarce is not goods or productive capacity, but access, security, and bargaining power. AI does not solve that problem; it merely increases the surplus whose distribution is already unequal.

Did you know it's been 2 years since SB17, #Texas' anti-DEI campus law went into effect?

I'm working on a survey of #LGBTQ+ orgs affected by this law, for The Barbed Wire. If you were part of, or know of a campus org that shut down or was forced to change goals due to SB17, please get in touch.

#education #LGBTQIA #news #culture #DEI #TXlege #queer #trans #journalism

I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again

So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.

Pues esto es lo que queda del paseo marítimo de Matalascañas. Todo normalísimo.

#CambioClimático #España🇪🇸 #noticias
https://elpais.com/espana/2026-01-05/el-temporal-pulveriza-el-paseo-maritimo-de-matalascanas-en-huelva.html

@skinnylatte

My fellow Americans, ours is a rogue state.

Anti-Imperialist posters seen in Quito, Ecuador

Under the U.S. constitutional order,
#Congress has the power to declare war,

and most legal experts agree that the raid
💥violated the U.N. charter’s prohibitions against the use of force against “the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”

The strongest defense of its legality, by conservative attorney Jack Goldsmith, bemoaned the fact that the intent of the Constitution’s Framers had been dulled and diluted over the years to allow it.

👉“This is not the system the Framers had in mind, and it is a dangerous system for all the reasons the Framers worried about,”
wrote Goldsmith,
who served as an attorney for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under George W. Bush.

“But that is where we are
—and indeed, it is where we have been for a while.”

https://www.allrisenews.com/p/maduro-indictment-prosecution-arrest-epner