Suspect In Mass Stabbing on Paris Metro Turns Out to be... Oh But Why Spoil the Shocking Twist?

I guess it's not that shocking.

An illegal migrant from Africa who had a deportation order is suspected of stabbing three women on the Paris metro on Friday in what appears to be another example of the French immigration system failing to protect the public.

A Malian migrant was arrested on Friday evening after three women were attacked on the number 3 line of the Parisian metro system between 4:15 and 4:45 pm local time.

Thankfully, the lives of the three victims are not in danger as their wounds were superficial. However, the 25-year-old African should not have been in the country had authorities performed their duty, reports indicate.

According to Le Figaro, citing sources from within the Paris prosecutor's office, the illegal from Mali was previously imprisoned last year for aggravated theft and sexual assault.

He was released in July and was issued with a OQTF deportation orders, yet nearly half a year later, has still not been removed from the country.

Following the attack on Friday, an investigation into attempted murder has been opened by the Regional Transport Security Service (SRT), which is reportedly not currently considering terrorism as a motivating factor. The suspect is believed to be "mentally unstable".

The UK just welcomed back a true Cultural Enricher who had previously been arrested in Egypt.

The UK actively campaigned for his release and his return to England.

The man routinely calls for the murder of Jews and "colonialists" of all kinds as well as for more "suicide bombings" and more murders of police.

He routinely declares how much he hates "white people" and how they, get this, need to be killed and dominated.

Oh and he also declared his intent to "take over ur towns and rape ur women."

But I mean that's obviously just a "joke," as he says now. No Muslim migrants would ever take over British towns or rape British women. Obviously he's just being satirical or something.

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"MS-NOW's" Ratings Crash After Separation from Garbage Network NBC

Their rebrand didn't help.

MSNBC recently decided to rebrand and changed its name to MS Now which sounds like a fundraiser for a disease or the old portal for Microsoft.

Did the ratings improve? Not so much.

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According to Nielsen Media Research, released on Monday (December 15), Fox News averaged 2.72 million primetime viewers and 287,000 viewers in the key Adults 25-54 demo in 2025. This was up 14 per cent in total viewers and 18 per cent in the demo compared to 2024.

In comparison, MSNBC (now MS NOW) averaged 923,000 total viewers (down 25 per cent on 2024) and 81,000 demo viewers (down 39 per cent), and CNN averaged 580,000 total viewers (down 15 per cent) and 105,000 demo viewers (down 29 per cent).

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MS Now lost 25% of its overall viewers in one year and 39% of its younger viewers.

At this rate, I don't know how much longer it's going to last.

MSNBC -- "MS-NOW" -- was forced to mention the exploding scandal.

You'll never guess how they played it.

Unless you guessed "it's a racist ploy by white supremacists to weaponize the government against minorities for political reasons." In that case, you did guess it.

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As Predictable As the Setting Sun: After Conspiracy Theorist and Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on Trump, the NYT Offers Her a Puff-Piece with an Attempted Glamour Shot

The Calvin Coolidge Project
@TheCalvinCooli1

New: Marjorie Taylor Greene told The New York Times that President Trump would stop at nothing to remain in office even after his second term ends and that he will try to cling to power

She is predicting that Trump will start a war to remain in power past his second term

She claims to the NYT -- which expresses no skepticism, of course -- that Trump "screamed" at her to not release the name of Epstein's "clients," because, as Trump "screamed," "My friends will get hurt!"

Marjorie Taylor Greene has not, to my knowledge, released this "list" which she supposedly had in her hands.

The New York Times didn't see fit to ask her about that.

Kate
@kate_p45

Dec 28

Instead of reading names of Epstein clients like Marjorie Taylor Greene promised existed, she quietly flew to Costa Rica to enjoy her beach vacation in her new $5 million dollar home.

Marjorie is a liar.
Massie is a liar.

More at the NY Post:

Outgoing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene openly speculated that President Trump lacks religious beliefs and slammed the "sexualization" of women at his lavish Mar-a-Lago club in a blistering series of interviews.

Greene (R-Ga.) reflected on Trump's stunning remarks at the memorial service for late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, in which the president was taken aback at how the Turning Point USA co-founder "wanted the best" for his enemies.

"That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them," Trump declared at the same September memorial where Erika Kirk powerfully forgave the sicko who allegedly killed her husband in cold blood.

"That was absolutely the worst statement," Greene told the New York Times. "It just shows where his heart is. And that's the difference, with her [Erika] having a sincere Christian faith, and proves that he does not have any faith."

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She publicly decried the arrests and treatment of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, backed Trump's dubious claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and even briefly garnered some buzz that she could be his VP pick last year.

LOL. "Buzz" that this retard fame-chaser planted.

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"Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you're wrong," Greene moaned about Trump's grip on the GOP.

"You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don't believe in doing that. I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud."

She later added: "For a lot of MAGA, Trump is a savior, and he's like a god to them."

While looking back on the causes of her falling out with Trump, Greene concluded that "it was [Jeffrey] Epstein. Epstein was everything."

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Greene also took issue with the aesthetic of women at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, contending that they're oversexualized.

"I never liked the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization. I believe how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women," the congresswoman said.

"I have two daughters, and I've always been uncomfortable with how those women puff up their lips and enlarge their breasts. I've never spoken about it publicly, but I've been planning to."

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More Somali Piracy: In Ohio, Somalis Are Defrauding the State Home Health Care System for $250,000 Per Year "Caring" for Phantom "Aged Parents"

Once again, the system has been set up so that all you have to do is submit the paperwork and wait a week for your rubber stamp.

A welfare program was enacted, supposedly, to pay people to stay at home and provide care for their disabled elderly relatives. Whose existence and infirmity, I'm sure, was "proven" by simple box-checks.

You won't believe what happened next!

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 WOW. Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke CONFIRMS MASSIVE fraud in Ohio, another hotbed for Somalis

They run fake "home health" and bill $250,000 PER YEAR, per FAMILY, when no work is actually being done

She says it also happens in PENNSYLVANIA

"Audit America. Audit Ohio now. And I'm pushing for that in every single state!"

"The state will, as long as the doctor has approved it, continue to pay you. It could be for 10 hours, 12 hours, up to 24 when it's critical care."

"So you could sit at home without caring for an elderly parent who really doesn't need it, make about $75,000 to $90,000 a year. Now you add two parents, that's $180,000. Now you add your in-laws $250,000."

"You continue to add this and you wonder what are the services being provided? So a lot of providers came and said fraud is occurring because we said we weren't going to rubber stamp this paperwork."

"So they went to other providers, their home health care networks saying we'll make it worth your while. Well, sounds like a kickback to me."

"So we really need to investigate the Medicaid system and how much it's increased since the Somalian population came and who really needs critical care because that's meant for our disabled, our elderly and people who really need it, not to just live off our system."

"And that's what's happening in Ohio. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's despicable, but authorities are now looking at it from the Attorney General's office to the U.S. Attorney's office."

"I flagged them all because this is Ohio tax dollars and we have to take it seriously. I'm tired of people telling me, well, this is the way it's always been. It's subjective and we can't really check. No, you can." @MehekCooke

And it's also going on in Pennsylvania. And, frankly, all other states, let's be serious.

But especially Newsom's Graft Empire of California.

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YouTuber Exposes Another Huge Ring of Somali Pirate Fraud as Legacy "Journalists" Refuse to Investigate or Report Others' Investigations

From NottheBee's collection of Somali Pirate Memes

Just endless cover-ups of enormous crime by the Insurgency Media.

Vice President JD Vance is giving public credit to a YouTube journalist for doing what he says legacy media and elite institutions have failed to do: follow the money in Minnesota. In a post on X, Vance praised independent reporter Nick Shirley for digging into alleged fraud networks tied to the state, saying Shirley "has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer prizes." The comment was a direct response to a video Shirley shared online documenting what he described as widespread fraud, with Shirley claiming his team identified more than $110 million in suspicious activity in a single day while confronting facilities allegedly receiving millions in public funds.

Shirley's reporting has been circulating widely among conservatives, with commentators amplifying clips of him visiting supposed daycare and education centers that appeared inactive despite receiving massive federal aid. Conservative media personality Benny Johnson said Shirley had exposed more than $100 million in Minnesota Somali-linked fraud routed through fake daycare and healthcare fronts, adding to the pressure on state leadership. The issue gained further traction after Tom Emmer, Minnesota's top House Republican, demanded answers from Gov. Tim Walz following a viral clip showing Shirley confronting workers at an alleged daycare in South Minneapolis. Shirley reported the center, called the "Quality Learning Center," showed no visible activity despite claims it served up to 99 children, and even misspelled "learning" on its signage. As Shirley approached, a woman inside was heard shouting "Don't open up," while incorrectly accusing him of being an ICE agent.

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THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots – December 29, 2025

Elon Musk and Tesla Replacing Goal of “Sustainability” with “Amazing Abundance”

The elimination of reliable, carbon-based energy has been one of the globalist left’s weapons in its effort to quash liberty and reorder society. Prior to Elon Musk’s turn to the right, he and Tesla were party to this agenda. To this day, on the “About Us” page of Tesla’s website, it states that Tesla’s mission is: “Accelerating the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy.”

With Musk’s embrace of freedom and prosperity, he has apparently come to realize that a call for “sustainability” is actually a call for the suppression of freedom and opportunity. A few days ago, Mr. Musk tweeted out a rather significant change in Tesla’s mission statement, eliminating the word “sustainable” and instead embracing “amazing abundance.”

Am changing the Tesla mission wording from:

Sustainable Abundance

To

Amazing Abundance

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2025

“Sustainability” was always a part of the climate hoax. While solar power and battery storage will be necessary for Elon’s planned colonization of Mars, he cannot break the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere without carbon fuels. His abandonment of “sustainability” as a corporate objective is another important milestone as the climate panic recedes.

*****

Donald Trump’s War on Unreliable Energy

Promoting coal, encouraging oil drilling, and stopping the net zero / green energy insanity is just about the most conservative thing a Republican president could do. (Along with securing the border.) It’s almost comical that the Never Trumpers are still shrieking that Trump is not a conservative, even as we read headlines like this:

“Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power” [Politico – 12/22/2025]

I voted for this.

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The Climate Hoax

Speaking of the climate hoax, parts of Canada are experiencing extreme cold temperatures not seen in decades. According to the high priests of the Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse, this is due to global warming.

The climate hoax melts at -68.3°F.�� https://t.co/OXONGg3neo

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 24, 2025

Meanwhile, there was a white Christmas in Saudi Arabia!

“Saudi Arabia Sees Rare Snowfall After 30 Years, Desert Mountains Turn into Winter Wonderland”

From snow capped peaks to desert plains dusted in white, the Kingdom experienced a weather event that many had only imagined.

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Climate Change is not Gender Neutral

With climate prophet Greta Thunberg now wearing a keffiyeh and celebrating the October 7 murder of Jews, it’s hard for the climate hustlers to make themselves appear any more comical. But they are creative. The UN is pushing the climate hoax from yet another angle, by stating that “climate change” is not gender neutral.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Åsgårdsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin)
Peter Nicolai Arbo

[Hat Tip: banana Dream]

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The Morning Report — 12/29/25

Good morning kids. Let's start off the with a bit of good news for a change, coming as it does from the international front. Hat tip to commenter Bulg for this story.

Israel on Friday announced that it has formally recognized Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. . . The statement said the declaration was made “in the spirit of the Abraham Accords,” the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements initiated under President Donald Trump. Netanyahu congratulated Abdallah and praised his leadership, citing a shared commitment to stability and peace. Netanyahu invited the Somaliland president to make an official visit to Israel. Abdallah, according to the statement, thanked Netanyahu for what he described as a historic decision and expressed appreciation for Israel’s efforts in combating terrorism and promoting regional peace.

For those unaware, Somaliland is not Somalia. It is an independent nation, though technically known only as a "partially recognized state" that borders the latter to the north, but that said it is an Islamic nation and does share ethnic and tribal/clan ties with the Somalia and indeed other peoples of the region. And since that region, the horn of Africa, also encompasses Yemen across the Gulf of Aden from which the Houthi terrorists use as a base to strike Israel as well as international shipping lanes in and out of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, this is big news. And while Somaliland gained its statehood back in 1960, it's amazing that of all the world's nations Israel is the first to officially recognize Somaliland as an independent nation. If the Somalilanders can be trusted (and given the nature of Islam, that's a pretty big "if") then Israel in theory gains a pretty important foothold in a very strategic area key to its defense. But what's in it for Somaliland to invite open hostility from the broader Islamic/Arab world of which it is a part? I guess as President Trump is so very fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see. Despite the smiles and the handshakes for the cameras, when things heat up again, as they no doubt will with the so-called 'Palestnians' You know the Somaliland government will not be silent and like eerywhere else will blame the Jews for not cooperating and just dying. But at least for now, perhaps Israel can keep a close eye on the Houthi front which, like so many other fronts is directly and closely connected to Iran. In spite of the decimation of its nuclear sites by both the IDF and USAF and reports of major internal problems, from the collapse of its water infrastructure to growing unrest and disaffection for the Mullahs from there populace, the regime can and no doubt will strike wherever and whenever it can. what happened at Bondi Beach may very well have an Iranian connection.

Back over here, the gargantuan fraud coming out o the Somali immigrant locust cloud primarily in Minnesota just beggars the imagination:

Somali Scammers Allegedly Stole Almost As Much In Minnesota As Entire Somalia GDP — FBI Director Kash Patel announced the agency was already sending additional resources in an X post Sunday, saying the deployment occurred before a 42-minute video of independent journalist Nick Shirley visiting various day care centers went viral Friday. Thompson described the situation as involving “industrial-scale fraud,” according to CBS News Minnesota. (RELATED: YouTuber Nick Shirley Exposes Alleged Somali Daycare Center Which Reportedly Reaped $4,000,000 From Taxpayers) . . Somalia’s GDP was $11.97 billion in 2024, according to a release from the country’s Bureau of National Statistics. Whistleblowers in Maine and Ohio have alleged similar schemes by Somali scammers have taken place in those states.

And speaking of Minnesota, this bastard needs to be dealt with:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Says if Deportation Operations Continue Minnesota Residents Will Start Killing ICE Agents . . . However, Mayor Frey did say if the ICE deportation operations continue, ICE agents are likely to be killed.  The obvious question is, ‘who will do the killing, Jacob‘?

Good question. There is no doubt that many millions of dollars of that grift wound up int eh pockets of Frey and Walz as payoffs for political protection. Considering they control the state and local governmental bureaucracies that distribute the funds, without them I doubt that the graft could ever have become so large and widespread. There's shoplifting but this is driving a tractor trailer into a warehouse full of furs and cleaning it out wholesale.

Considering that a hefty percentage of what was grifted no doubt wound up in the hands of terrorists in Somalia, Perhaps Somaliland making nice with Israel is an act of self preservation on the part of the Somalilanders, given the nature of tribalism.

Something to consider.

Meh, who needs Islamic terrorists or Chi-Coms, when we have people like this, running our government and charged with keeping us safe. . .

Why LAFD Refused to Put Out LA Wildfires: “Heck No That Area is Full of Endangered Plants.” . . .“I would be a real idiot to ever put a dozer in that area. I’m so trained.”

Well at least LA now has a lesbian fire chief whose sole experience in putting out fires is reaching for a can of Jock itch spray

Have a great day!

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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Daily Tech News 29 December 2025

Top Story

• My PC, it will not boot.
  I rm'ed * while su root.
  
  Now maybe Gemini and Grok will be able to find this.
  
  
  
• Did Qualcomm strangle Arduino by changing its terms of use after the acquisition?
  
  Yes says competitor Adafruit. No says Qualcomm. (The New Stack)
  
  Well that's to be expected. How about a neutral and trustworthy third party?
  
  No says the EFF.
  
  Does that settle things?
  
  Given how long the article is, I'd say it doesn't. While the hardware is nominally still open, users are pushed heavily toward cloud services that are not open in any sense of the word.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - December 28, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT - Last one of 2025. Appreciate you stopping by tonight. You have choices in how to end your weekend. Even if you chose not to decide how to end your weekend, you still would have made a choice.

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Gun Thread: Final December and Final 2025 Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! It's a gol-danged double final! How in the ever-loving hell did it get to be the Final December Edition and the Final 2025 Edition?! Christmas was bueno (read: quiet-o) here. How about all y'all? Did you get shooting stuff? Did you give shooting stuff? Did you both give and get shooting stuff?

Your ol' pal Weasel hopped into WeaselOne yesterday and made a quick trip to WeaselAcres to check on things, and everything was just peachy. A few extra sticks to pick up along the road, but that was it. I didn't stay long enough to do any shooting, and will remedy that next trip. How about you? Anyone get a new firearm and take it to the range?

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Lies, Damned Lies, And Wine Reviewers

That's a pleasant, reasonably-priced wine from northern Italy, with the legal designation of IGT, or Indicazione Geografica Tipica. It's stupidly complicated, but the short explanation is that the wines with that designation satisfy a certain minimum requirement, and fall in the middle of the various designations of the Italian wine industry.

The reason it is complicated is that there are superb wines that are among the best that Italy produces, but because of these arcane rules, they can't be given the top designation of DOP or DOCG or...whatever. And Italy isn't the only country with lunatic rules! The United States and France do it too!

Anyway, I bought this wine because it is a blend of two grapes, Negroamaro and Primitivo, one of which I like very much. Primitivo is roughly analogous to Zinfandel, and I have had very good luck with this grape. Also, it's not an expensive wine, so even if it were crap, I could still cook with it and not have to sell my other kidney to afford it.

But I arrived at the wine store and discovered that it was being touted as a great wine, which puzzled me, because I have never had a Primitivo-based wine that was anywhere near great. Tasty? Yes! Great with dinner at a classic Italian-American restaurant? Absolutely. But the "98" rating from a well-known reviewer seemed a bit odd.

A "98" should mean an incredible, special, wonderful wine that is an amazing experience. I have taken wine seriously for a very long time, and I can count on the fingers of one hand (with a thumb or two to spare) the number of "98" wines I have drunk. For you geeks, a 1971 Richebourg was the best of that short list, and while I didn't think to assign a number to it (mostly I was mumbling..."holy sh*t!), I guess it was about a "98."

So when I opened this bottle I was not at all surprised to discover that it was exactly what I expected...a pleasant and uncomplicated wine that went nicely with the cheeseburger I was having for dinner. I would give it an "85," which is a respectable score. I bought a few more bottles, because it was worth the price.

So, what's up with Luca Maroni? Bribed? Stupid? Crap palate? Or maybe he is an unabashed Italian patriot and simply wants his country's wine industry to prosper.

You make the call...

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First World Problems...

That's one of those newfangled "top-down" shades, which allows one to lift it from the bottom or drop it from the top. Very convenient, but obviously the house has shifted and must be straightened.

I guess the first step is to dig out the foundation and relevel it. Or perhaps raze the house, level the foundation, and rebuild.

Or remove the entire foundation, dig to bedrock, and sink pilings so that there is a stable base for everything!

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America Is Too Stoned Already: We Don't Need More Marijuana Availability

[Clever readers will notice that this is a repost from last week...Ace stomped it after a half hour or so]

That's where marijuana should remain. Smoky dorm rooms and basements where stupid kids and their even stupider older siblings hang out and solve the ills of the world. But it doesn't belong on our streets or offices, and relaxing federal restrictions will do exactly that. Hell, it's already everywhere in some cities...it's impossible to walk down a NYC street and not smell it.

Rescheduling Marijuana Is the Wrong Call

When it comes to drugs, it’s hard to imagine a Republican president deciding to pick up where his Democratic predecessor left off. Yet that is what President Donald Trump did yesterday, directing the Department of Justice to finalize a process, started under former President Joe Biden, that would recategorize how the federal government views marijuana. In so doing, Trump hands a huge financial benefit to the businesses seeking to profit from making pot more mainstream.

There’s no way of understanding the decision without seeing it as a triumph of commerce over long-standing cultural concerns, and of the libertarian, podcast bro faction of the Right over its traditional socially conservative wing. It’s also the wrong move. Improving the commercial viability of marijuana won’t make America’s citizens healthier or her cities more livable. If the goal of federal policy is to make America great, rather than just delivering benefits to a well-connected industry, yesterday’s executive order should be contested—and rescinded if possible.

America has too many problems without adding more of us getting high regularly. Sure, I sound like somebody who just kicked you off his lawn, but what is the benefit to our culture?

[Yes, there is a song behind the graphic!]

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 12-28-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, enjoy a freshly-made batch of Chex Mix, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 28 December 2025

Top Story

• So what's the real story behind Nvidia spending $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to Groq's (not that one) inference technology?
  
  Definitely not fraud.* (Ossa-ma)
  
  Or so argue Nvidia and Groq's lawyers as the FTC no doubt prepares for a endoscopic examination of their respective corporate records.
  
  Nvidia buying another AI company would lead to messy stuff like regulatory approval, and Nvidia doesn't have time for that. So they paid $20 billion for a non-exclusive license to the technology... Oh, and that also included Groq's executive and engineering teams and all their patents and trade secrets.
  
  But not the company itself, or any duty to support its customers. GroqCloud has been left to quietly die under control of the former CFO, drained of its engineering talent and indeed its entire reason to exist.
  
  What Groq actually does is interesting: They make chips that use hundreds of megabytes of internal SRAM rather than tens of gigabytes of external DRAM, and have staggering amounts of bandwidth - 80 terabytes per second per chip.
  
  Not suitable for training LLMs but great for running them once they have been trained.
  
  As for the deal: Is this technically illegal? Possibly. Will Nvidia get away with it? Probably.
  
  * Though if not fraud, why fraud shaped?

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" December 27, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT. A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. We hope everyone had a wonderful, whelming and blessed Christmas - and that you enjoyed/endured family, food, traditions, and cheer. Welcome back.

Last Club ONT of 2025. Have you come to party?!? Please have your password and restroom tokens ready. Make a new friend or 2. Tip your bartender. DO NOT try the veal.

[Top Photo: Winter Wonderland, Seiffen, Germany]

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Klaus (2019)

This holiday season has offered a really limited slate of films, for reasons I don't quite understand. It might be that the third Avatar movie was enough to scare off other films, or it might be that having given up on Christmas years ago (the surviving market being relegated to Hallmark and the lot) and giving up on understanding human behavior, Hollywood's contented to just...give up. And we've basically lost all our Korean exhibitors, so the "seeing a Korean movie on Christmas Eve" tradition died before its tenth year.

Looking through the revivals, I saw two interesting possibilities. One was John Woo's "Bullet in the Head" (35th anniversary). Tempting, but somewhat awkward to get to. The other, in a more accessible theater, was the 2019 movie Klaus—which I was shocked to see ranked #159 on IMDB's top 250.

I have more than 250 issues with this list, but that aside—and very cautiously setting aside the Netflix brand name—I was surprised to see this relatively obscure film from Sergio Pablos' Animagic Studios (best known for Despicable Me, which Pablos created) on it. So off we went.

Christmas in Los Angeles.

Well.

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Hobby Thread - December 27, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. This is the LAST HOBBY THREAD of 2025!!

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 27

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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