Bookmarks 2025-12-31T17:59:25.104Z
by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2025-12-31T17:59:25.104Z
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10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025 | Live Science Added: Dec 31, 2025
10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025
Site: Live Science
Findings about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.
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Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’ - POLITICO Added: Dec 31, 2025
Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’
Site: POLITICO
The monument would be a centerpiece of the White House’s plans for America’s 250th birthday.
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Five Challenges Mamdani Faces on Day 1 as NYC Mayor - WSJ Added: Dec 31, 2025
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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‘Bad governor’: Why Trump issued the first veto of his second term
Site: POLITICO
The president in an interview blasted Colorado’s governor when asked why he vetoed a water project.
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NASA Just Heard Something Strange on Mars, And It’s Unlike Anything Recorded Before
Added: Dec 31, 2025NASA Just Heard Something Strange on Mars, And It’s Unlike Anything Recorded Before
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
A mysterious sound picked up by NASA’s Mars rover is sparking new questions about the Red Planet’s hidden forces.
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California got new AI regulations, but just barely, in 2025
Added: Dec 31, 2025Big Tech got regulated, but just barely: 2025 in review
Site: CalMatters
A successful push for AI regulation hit chatbots and algorithmic pricing, but the regulations themselves were watered down
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Eileen on X: "@bungarsargon https://t.co/WlkBDVLnyA" / X Added: Dec 31, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Trump shares posts attacking Kennedy family after death of Tatiana Schlossberg - nj.com Added: Dec 31, 2025
Trump tears into Kennedys hours after family death is announced
Site: nj
The president shared attacks related to his renaming of the Kennedy Center.
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Woke English Departments Versus Great Literature | National Review Added: Dec 31, 2025
Woke English Departments Versus Great Literature | National Review
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How Postmodernism Killed Great Literature — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Added: Dec 31, 2025How Postmodernism Killed Great Literature — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Site: The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Last week, I finished reading Ottessa Moshfegh’s bestselling 2018 novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation. While I usually do not read books from the “Millennial Sad Girl Navigates Modern…
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The Right’s Retreat from the Liberal Arts and Its Intellectual Costs — Minding The Campus
Added: Dec 31, 2025The Right’s Retreat from the Liberal Arts and Its Intellectual Costs — Minding The Campus
Site: Minding The Campus
When the Trump administration issued an executive order to slash Department of Education (ED) funding earlier this year, the left responded with outrage, painting an apocalyptic scenario in which students would lose access to educational resources and critical research funding would be redirected into the pockets of billionaires. As Senator Elizabeth Warren lamented in March, […]
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The plot to redraw America
Site: POLITICO
How Donald Trump launched a redistricting caper he couldn’t pull off.
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The world is awash in wealth but starved for productivity—and that imbalance is distorting growth, debt, and opportunity. We need AI to come through | Fortune Added: Dec 31, 2025
The world is awash in wealth but starved for productivity—and that imbalance is distorting growth, debt, and opportunity. We need AI to come through | Fortune
Site: Fortune
AI could be the disruption of the century, and a positive one. But that is far from inevitable.
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Scientists Discover Oldest Human Footprints in New Mexico, And the Details Are Unbelievable
Added: Dec 31, 2025
Scientists Discover Oldest Human Footprints in New Mexico, And the Details Are Unbelievable
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
In an unexpected place, scientists have uncovered footprints that don’t quite fit the story we thought we knew.
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In 1988, a futurist envisioned Israel in 2025. Some of his predictions were spot-on | The Times of Israel
Added: Dec 31, 2025In 1988, a futurist envisioned Israel in 2025. Some of his predictions were spot-on | The Times of Israel
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Pinokio Added: Dec 31, 2025
Pinokio: The 1-Click Localhost Cloud
Run your own personal Internet on Mac, Windows, and Linux with one click.
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tencent-ailab/SongGeneration: The official code repository for LeVo: High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment
Added: Dec 31, 2025GitHub - tencent-ailab/SongGeneration: The official code repository for LeVo: High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment
Site: GitHub
The official code repository for LeVo: High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment - tencent-ailab/SongGeneration
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smthemex/ComfyUI_SongGeneration: SongGeneration:High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment (SOTA),you can try VRAM>12G
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GitHub - smthemex/ComfyUI_SongGeneration: SongGeneration:High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment (SOTA),you can try VRAM>12G
Site: GitHub
SongGeneration:High-Quality Song Generation with Multi-Preference Alignment (SOTA),you can try VRAM>12G - smthemex/ComfyUI_SongGeneration
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(207) Tencent Drops SongGeneration: Text-to-Song Model with Music - Install Locally - YouTube Added: Dec 31, 2025
Tencent Drops SongGeneration: Text-to-Song Model with Music - Install Locally
Site: YouTube
This video locally installs SongGeneration model. It is an LM-based framework consisting of LeLM and a music codec.🔥 Get 50% Discount on any A6000 or A5000 ...
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3I/ATLAS Lifecycle: Six Remarkable Stages After Perihelium | by Liena Dreams | Dec, 2025 | Medium Added: Dec 31, 2025
3I/ATLAS Lifecycle: Six Remarkable Stages After Perihelium
Site: Medium
Coma Shape, Brightness, and Spectral Transformation in Just Two Months
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Sing to the World: No. 1, That Music Always Round Me - YouTube Music Added: Dec 31, 2025
Sing to the World: No. 1, That Music Always Round Me - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by Naxos Digital Services Sing to the World: No. 1, That Music Always Round Me · Adam Whitmore · Phoenix Consort · Dan Locklair · Walt W...
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How to fix this: You are not currently on a branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details. git pull <remote> <branch> - Google Search Added: Dec 31, 2025
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Former FBI agent Nicole Parker explains how DEI split the agency and led to disaster | New York Post Added: Jan 1, 2026
Former FBI agent Nicole Parker explains how DEI split the agency and led to disaster: ‘They were hiring idiots’
Site: New York Post
While standards “deteriorated” during the President Obama/James Comey era, Parker claimed, under former director Christopher Wray, “it really amped it up” and “morale took a serious hit,” under Bid…
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Scientists turn carrot waste into protein people prefer | ScienceDaily Added: Jan 1, 2026
Scientists turn carrot waste into protein people prefer
Site: ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered a clever way to turn carrot processing leftovers into a nutritious and surprisingly appealing protein. By growing edible fungi on carrot side streams, researchers produced fungal mycelium that can replace traditional plant-based proteins in foods like vegan patties and sausages. When people sampled the foods, many preferred the versions made entirely with the fungal protein over those made with soy or chickpeas.
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2025: The year in LLMs Added: Jan 1, 2026
2025: The year in LLMs
Site: Simon Willison’s Weblog
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
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The Girl With The Duck Tattoo – Sarma Melngailis
Added: Jan 1, 2026The Girl With The Duck Tattoo – Sarma Melngailis
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The Truth About Netflix's "Bad Vegan" and a Crime Week Con, with Sarma Melngailis
Site: YouTube
Crime Week continues as Megyn Kelly is joined by Sarma Melngailis, author of "The Girl with the Duck Tattoo," to discuss what the Netflix "documentary" "Bad ...
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Woke Hollywood is Failing America
Site: YouTube
Miranda Devine is joined by one of America’s top entertainment critics, Johnny Oleksinski, who blasts liberal Hollywood for making movies no one wants to see...
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A Paradox in Evolution May Become the Next Rule of Biology Added: Jan 1, 2026
Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution—and It May Become the Next Rule of Biology
Site: Popular Mechanics
A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos.
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The Symmetric Jet Structure in Hubble Images of 3I/ATLAS
Site: Medium
Seventeen images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on November 30, December 12 and December 27…
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If 3I/ATLAS is a Comet, then Its Anti-Tail Jet Should Not Include Streaming Gas Beyond ~5,000…
Site: Medium
During the past two months after perihelion, the anti-tail jet from the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was observed to extend out to a…
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** 7 takeaways from Jack Smith’s congressional testimony**
Site: POLITICO
The New Year’s Eve transcript release buries details from the former special counsel’s investigation into Donald Trump.
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The Truth About Netflix's "Bad Vegan" and a Crime Week Con, with Sarma Melngailis
Site: YouTube
Crime Week continues as Megyn Kelly is joined by Sarma Melngailis, author of "The Girl with the Duck Tattoo," to discuss what the Netflix "documentary" "Bad ...
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Why Do Con Artists Target Sophisticated, Well-Educated Women? That's the Point
Site: YouTube
Why do con artists target sophisticated, well-educated women? That's the point.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly/3Aw93ywWatch full cli...
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Run Real Python in Browsers With Pyodide and WebAssembly - The New Stack Added: Jan 1, 2026
Run Real Python in Browsers With Pyodide and WebAssembly
Site: The New Stack
Pyodide compiles CPython to WebAssembly, letting developers run full Python directly in the browser without servers or installations.
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The TRUTH About the "Bad Vegan" Story, From the Woman at the Center of the "Con" Sarma Melngailis
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Sarma Melngailis, author of "The Girl with the Duck Tattoo," joins to discuss what the Netflix "documentary" "Bad Vegan" gets right ...
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DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to Long Life : ScienceAlert
Added: Jan 1, 2026DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to Long Life
Site: ScienceAlert
There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ability to postpone the inevitable.
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Sergey Brin’s Unretirement Is a Lesson for the Rest of Us Added: Jan 1, 2026
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Trees in Panama's tropical forests are growing longer roots in the face of drought
Site: Live Science
A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term "rescue strategy" is unlikely to save them from the impacts of climate change.
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The Amazon Is Entering A "Hypertropical" Climate For The First Time In 10 Million Years | IFLScience
Added: Jan 1, 2026The Amazon Is Entering A "Hypertropical" Climate For The First Time In 10 Million Years
Site: IFLScience
And it's up to us to reverse the trend.
A new type of climate regime is emerging in the Amazon rainforest as intense heat and drought continue to push the region beyond the tolerable limits for a tropical ecosystem. According to researchers, the escalating conditions have reached the point of becoming “hypertropical”, recreating an environment that hasn’t been seen anywhere on Earth for around 10 million years. And while the prolonged hot droughts associated with this regime are still relatively rare in the Amazon, the authors of a new study predict that these conditions could occur on 150 days a year by the end of this century, with devastating consequences. For instance, by analyzing 30 years' worth of forest demographic data, the researchers showed that tree mortality increases by 55 percent whenever such a drought occurs. “When these hot droughts occur, that’s the climate that we associate with a hypertropical forest, because it’s beyond the boundary of what we consider to be tropical forest now,” said lead study author Jeff Chambers in a statement. Hypertropical biomes were last present on Earth between 10 and 40 million years ago, when the planet was considerably hotter than it is today. However, Chambers insists that a return to these scorching conditions is not inevitable, and can be avoided if we take the necessary measures. “It’s up to us to what extent we’re actually going to create this hypertropical climate,” he says. “If we’re just going to emit greenhouse gasses as much as we want, without any control, then we’re going to create this hypertropical climate sooner.” To understand how hot droughts cause such catastrophic tree die-offs, the researchers observed transpiration rates at two different Amazonian sites during the warm El Niño events of 2015 and 2023. At both sites, and on both occasions, they found that when soil moisture content dropped below a threshold of about one-third of its capacity, transpiration plummeted as trees closed the pores in their leaves to prevent water loss. This, in turn, led to carbon starvation, as leaves became unable to capture the carbon dioxide they require for photosynthesis. Eventually, trees experienced hydraulic collapse as air bubbles – called embolisms – formed in their sap. “[I]f there are enough embolisms, the tree just dies,” says Chambers. Overall, the combined effect of a mass die-off and reduced carbon uptake by surviving trees could have a major impact on the global climate, as the Amazon – like other rainforests around the world – plays an essential role in regulating the planet’s carbon budget. Analyzing five different climate models to try and simulate future changes, the researchers concluded that hypertropical conditions are likely to become common in the Amazon during the dry season within the next two to four decades, and could be present year-round by 2100. Sounding a warning to the world and urging policymakers to take note, the researchers write that “present-day hot droughts are harbingers of this emerging climate, offering a window for studying tropical forests under expected extreme future conditions.” The study is published in the journal Nature.
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This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it | ZDNET
Added: Jan 1, 2026This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it
Site: ZDNET
Portable and modular, Orbitiny runs on top of your existing window manager - such as KDE Plasma or GNOME - like a regular app.
