If you've been assaulted with weeks of insufferably schmaltzy and cloying #ChristmasMusic, and you need a "fix", I invite you to check out:

#AmyEngelhardt channeling the Virgin Mary in "#HowDidThisThingGetInMe?"

https://audiomack.com/twanky-records/song/how-did-this-thing-get-in-me-live-at-largo

The sublime #JudithOwen w/ the #GentlemanCallers doing covers of

#BackDoorSanta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBsUEp3uRU

#SantaBaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhRuQ8bU9B8

#MerryChristmasBaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh65lZrQd4

#bluesyChristmas #NewOrleansChristmas #xmasMusic (but cool) @MusiqueNow

"#KarenHao joins Scientific American to discuss her new book #EmpireOfAI, exploring how companies like #OpenAI wield power that is reminiscent of historical empires. From ideological quests for artificial general intelligence to the environmental toll of massive #dataCenters, Hao reveals the hidden forces shaping our technological future—and the reasons we should all be paying attention."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8ZTI2Ft0w
#AI #AGI #artificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #books @bookstodon

#LeShow w/ #HarryShearer

#AI expert #GaryMarcus on the AI illusion and why it isn't intelligence

https://harryshearer.com/le-shows/december-21-2025/#
#artificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #AIhype

« Les envahisseurs ont en effet méthodiquement saccagé l’espace urbain pour refouler des masses de réfugiés vers les terrains vagues et les dunes de la zone côtière, où il n’est plus question de vivre, mais de simplement survivre. Les images satellites révèlent cet été que «#KhanYounès est presque totalement rasée». »

https://assawra.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-longue-histoire-de-khan-younes.html
#Gaza #Palestine #violencesColoniales #ligneJaune

#LongReads pod | #WesternSahara's Struggle for Freedom Pt 1

"[T]he experience of Spanish colonial rule and the emergence of a movement for independence before the invasion by #Morocco in 1975."

guest: Jacob Mundy, author of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-western-saharas-struggle-for-freedom-w-jacob/id791564318?i=1000741869497
#Polisario #decolonialStruggles #MENA #Maghreb