Link round-up for 6 December 2025

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

For those among our fellow class warriors who observe Christmas -- a festive gingerbread guillotine!

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Different people deal with snow in different ways.

Some cats are very smart.  These are not those cats.

Yep..... it's Christmas season.

See their faces.

Bark softly and carry a big stick.

Ads in the old days were pretty weird.

Here's a look at Christmas shopping from 1973.

Lady M is ready to celebrate Creepmas.

See a stop-motion animator work on a dramatic scene.

Imagine living in this house designed by "AI".

This pirate won't just rob you, he'll be an insufferable asshole about it.

Here's what happens when you make an "AI" video.

When arranging hospice care, make sure that you know how critical medications will be handled -- this is scandalous incompetence.

Windows 11 really isn't fixable.

Here's an amazing new "AI" program that randomly deletes everything on your computer.

Teenagers' ownership of smartphones correlates with several health problems.

Investing in Trump has turned out to be a bad idea.

Imagine having this creep living in your home with you.

The latest flaming-nutball idea from the "AI" crazies is data centers in space.

The great monologue from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice isn't what you think.

Here are some tips on telling real videos from fake ones.

There's one clue that always distinguishes real writing from fake.

Modern times require a new kind of hero.

Amazon used "AI" to dub anime shows on its video service.  The results were so crappy, and the fans were so furious, that Amazon withdrew the dubs.

Starting next February, you will be able to fly without a Real ID just by paying forty-five dollars.  That should certainly stymie the terrorists.

"It takes an average of 5 to 10 years for the regret and catastrophic results to set in....."

Did you think they couldn't make ChatGPT any shittier?  They managed.

A new film tells the story of a segregated black female Army unit which fixed the scandalously backlogged military postal system during World War II.

Evangelical pastors are leading an attack on empathy as a "spiritually dangerous" feeling that "will align you with hell".

Retail sales on Black Friday were actually up this year, in spite of the deteriorating economy.

Remember the collaterally damaged.

The CDC under RFK Jr has gone full quack.

He violently assaulted two people and got off with probation.  Justice in this country is an absolute joke.

A small Mideastern country exerts a secretive and malignant influence over the US government.

Religion spreads disease.

"AI" has failed, decisively and finally, and people are finally realizing it.  The number of people using "AI" in the workplace is now decreasing, not rising.

What did John Adams actually say about Jewish people?

Americans all across the US are coming together across party lines to oppose data centers.

Millions of Americans will likely see huge increases in health insurance premiums as their ACA tax credits end, due to Congress fiddle-faddling around and focusing on assigning blame rather than on solving the problem.

A "delete Facebook" campaign is under way as Meta threatens to use its users' data to train "AI".

7-11 fired this cashier for defending herself against a violent maniac.  These companies don't give a damn about the safety of their working-class employees.

Sometimes a slimy politician is just flat-out openly slimy.

British pension funds are getting out of US stocks in anticipation of the market crash when the "AI" bubble collapses.

Tesla sales are continuing to decline in Europe.

They vandalized a memorial to a murdered child.

Europe is reportedly now considering a mass dumping of US Treasury bonds as retaliation if Trump backstabs Ukraine -- a move which would devastate the US economy.

See the spectacular failure of a Russian ICBM test launch.  Here's some background on it.

Watch a Ukrainian sea drone attack on two of Russia's "shadow fleet" tankers.  Both tankers were disabled.  Another "shadow" tanker was damaged and is sinking of the coast of Senegal.  It's uncertain whether this was a Ukrainian attack, but the tanker's owner is ending all Russia-linked operations just to be on the safe side.

Sometimes it's drone-on-drone warfare.

Russian officers threw away this soldier's life for pointless symbolism.

See Ukrainian drones destroy a motorcycle assault group.  Part of the video is in infrared (heat-sensing) vision, illustrating its usefulness at night or in fog.

Here's a Russian oil refinery that was recently attacked.  And here's an oil pipeline.  This is a Russian drone control site in occupied Ukraine.

With anti-Semitism on the rise all over the West, Israel is preparing to absorb possible waves of refugees.

India is the world's main supplier of pharmaceuticals, but it needs to adapt to changing demand.

India's religio-nationalist Modi government is trying to install spyware on all the country's smartphones.

More links at Red State Blues and Comedy Plus.

My posts this week:  a Wizard of Oz musical remix, and an image round-up.

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What would happen if China invaded Taiwan?