Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

M 5.0, Southeast of Honshu, Japan https://social.yl.ms/display/e18176ef-781f40c0-d3b12ebb57080673

I’ve convinced outsidecat to sit on my lap for cuddles. See pictured air biscuits for proof
#cats #catsofmastodon

Guess I’d better start sharing some fun photos of what we saw out driving around to see Christmas lights and decorations. This South Park home is incredible. Every character is hand painted on wood plaques. There was a sound track of several songs from Christmas episodes and coordinated lights. Video:
#ChristmasLights #Phoenix #Arizona #Christmas

Awww, the little Goth kids are represented too! Les Claypool/Santa/Jesus are up there on the roof. Many famous cartoon characters of the townspeople are here too.

#ChristmasLights #Phoenix #Arizona #Christmas

Western bluebird bathing

SUMMARY: Tensions rise in the Middle East as Israel vows to expand airstrikes and prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza amidst ongoing conflict with Hamas, who claims Israel's airstrike killed 70 in a camp. Meanwhile, global crises and the connection to climate change are discussed by David Miliband, and there's a call for a ceasefire. In politics, polls show Trump leading Biden for a 2024 rematch.

What Christmas morning looks like in Palestine: 🇵🇸

On the East Coast, Christmas Eve is about to end, and Christmas is minutes away. in the #Philadelphia region, we have two college radio holiday music marathons to choose from: the 31st Night Before marathon with DJ Robert Drake on #WXPN (Penn) and and the 35th annual 25-hour holiday marathon on #WPRB (Princeton).

So here are your links, now that I'm lifting my personal #ChristmasMusic embargo.

https://xpn.org/jingle-cam/
https://playlists.wprb.com/WPRB/pl/18319932/Jon-Solomon?layout=1

Ukrainians pray for peace in homeland at Christmas event in Tokyo https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231225/p2a/00m/0na/006000c

I clearly failed to acquire the "must follow the crowd/fit in/be one of the flock" instinct of so many people I know--quite clear to me tonight at Christmas Eve service. I suspect it's because I grew up as outside the dominant religion in a state which was dominated by a single religious group (Utah). #sheep

Merry Christmas, folks. I hope you have a lovely day.

CATL, the Chinese battery giant and a major supplier to Tesla, has unveiled its latest product that aims to solve electric vehicles’ charging and range limitations.

The battery, dubbed #Shenxing or “god-like movement,” is able to refuel up to 400 kilometers (250 miles) of range in 10 minutes, Gao Han, chief technology officer of CATL’s e-car division, said at a launch briefing.

That means vehicles powered by Shenxing can drive from New York to Boston (about 215 miles) after just 10 minutes of fast charging.

Mass production of the battery is expected to be underway by the end of 2023, with shipping to begin in 2024.

Shenxing claims to be “the world’s first 4C superfast charging LFP battery. “LFP stands for lithium iron phosphate, a type of battery chemistry that Tesla widely adapted in 2021 for its shorter-range cars in place of nickel-cobalt-aluminum.

China is a big proponent of LFP, a technology spearheaded by its renewable energy darling CATL, which topped the global EV battery market with a 35% share in Q1, according to research firm SNE.

This type of battery is known for its cheap prices and chemical stability, though it has a lower energy density than other battery chemistries, which is a drag on EVs’ range.

CATL’s extraordinary growth has been buoyed by an EV boom in China over the last few years. But the EV industry is decelerating as government subsidies shrink and consumption contracts amid a post-COVID economic downturn.

Meanwhile, the Fujian-based battery manufacturers face heated competition from BYD, the Chinese EV giant that also makes its own battery. In Q1, BYD trailed CATL in second place with a 16.2% share of the global EV battery market
#LithiumIronPhosphate
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/tesla-supplier-catl-unveils-battery-that-can-add-up-to-400km-of-range-in-10-minutes/

…understanding natural language requires lots of commonsense inferences, which are neither logically certain nor (often) highly probable. It requires, in other words, lots of abductions.
—Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do #ai

…the vast majority of inferences we make are seemingly mundane, like all the multifarious leaps and guesses made in the course of ordinary conversation. Unfortunately for researchers in AI, even mundane inferences are not simple to program.
—Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do #ai

🎅🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS Monday JoWordle 🤶🎄

https://word.rodeo/jowordle/

Went to Christmas Eve service (outside the open doors with speakers, masked for me) and the sub deacon at my church is so kind, he brought the holy myrrh oil out to me and blessed me before everyone else. If you are not Orthodox, it smells like roses and earthy stuff. It's on my forehead and hands.♥️

Home now and watching the local Episcopalians live stream their service. Nice folks.

Merry Christmas to those observing, and my prayers are for all people. For peace, health, and safety.

🎄🕊️❄️✨🫂♥️

@DrALJONES Yes - Zionists rode on the back of Jewish fears, and is doing to others what Jews were afraid would be done to them.

每次出门玩就觉得愧对小圆。🥺

Our big Christmas Eve family meal is done for the year, time to decompress. Tourtière Du Lac Saint-Jean and this I year we also had hot buttered peas.

#ChristmasEve #Christmas #Food

EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' - "It's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us t... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/12/25/0330210/eff-warns-think-twice-before-giving-surveillance-for-the-holidays?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #eff