FirePrometheus

I’m sick in FPS games.

[Ciudadano Roberto Kiltro @RobertoMerken]

🔴 Kast ganó la presidencia prometiendo acabar con la "catástrofe de seguridad" del gobierno de Boric. Su ministro acaba de decir que el plan de seguridad de Boric es bueno y lo van a mantener. La campaña fue un mal chiste. El actual gobierno también.

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Today’s show in Chile is dedicated to the memory of #VictorJara the great musician & activist who was tortured and murdered by the US backed fascist Pinochet regime in 1973. #MemoryAndJustice

[Camila Vallejo Dowling @camila_vallejo]

No se entiende cómo se promete mano dura contra la delincuencia y, al mismo tiempo, se impulsa con tanta vehemencia un proyecto que busca abrir las puertas de las cárceles a criminales. Ese doble discurso no es sostenible en nuestro país. Resulta preocupante y grave que no solo parlamentarios de derecha respalden esta iniciativa, sino también el propio presidente electo.

[The Clinic @thecliniccl]

🔴 AHORA | Jeannette Jara tras avance de proyecto de conmutación de penas en el Senado: "Al final parece que los que querían tratar con amor a los delincuentes no era el sector que nosotros representábamos, sino quienes hoy han sido elegidos"

» https://t.co/MY5Y5WxPmj

[Radio ADN @adnradiochile]

Acusan que proyecto del senador Chahuán que suspende penas a adultos mayores es idéntico a texto de abogada de Punta Peuco

https://t.co/FFOhDT5LJp

[H @hernan_sr]

PAPELÓN

La ley que presentó Chahuán de conmutación de penas es igual ( las mismas comas y puntos) a la defensa de la abogada Carla Fernández, que ha representado a la mayoría de los reos de Punta Peuco, incluido Krassnoff.

En simple: la ley aprobada por el congreso fue redactada por la misma abogada de los reos de Punta Peuco.

Aprobar esa ley es inconstitucional.

[Julio César Rodrígues @JulioCesar_CHV]

Después de estas declaraciones la presión política fue tal que tuve que renunciar a Chilevision.

Atentamente,
Julio César Rodriguez

[The Clinic @thecliniccl]

🔴 AHORA | Presidente Boric por proyecto que conmuta penas: "Lo redactaron los mismos abogados de los que están presos en Punta Peuco".

» https://t.co/MY5Y5WxPmj

[Carlos Gajardo Pinto @cgajardop]

Que grave esto: según esta investigación el proyecto de ley que conmuta penas a condenados de más de 70 años lo redactó la abogada de Miguel Krasnoff y Álvaro Corbalán. Si se comprueba es gravísimo. 👇🏽

[Michelle Bachelet Archivo @MBarchivo]

Hemos estado a la altura de transiciones respetuosas y ejemplares para el mundo entre izquierda y derecha. Las mentiras de la ultraderecha liderada por José Antonio Kast están rompiendo con esta tradición.

[Gabriel Boric Font @GabrielBoric]

Lamento profundamente que el presidente electo, José Antonio Kast, haya tomado la decisión de empañar la sana y orgullosa tradición republicana de realizar un traspaso de mando que ponga en el centro la continuidad del Estado y el bienestar de las chilenas y chilenos.

Chile merece que sus autoridades estén a la altura de lo que se les encomienda. Por eso, reitero mi disposición y de todo mi gobierno de continuar las conversaciones acordadas de traspaso con temas tan importantes como políticas de infancia, hacienda, comisión de Paz y Entendimiento, migración y todo el que sea necesario.

Avancemos juntos por Chile, y demos rápidamente por superado este ingrato episodio que no le hace bien a nuestro país ni a su gente. Nuestra mano está tendida.

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Mr. Wielicki just posted a graph showing CO2 was higher 500 million years ago and thought he ended the climate debate. Let's talk about what else was happening when CO2 was at 4,000+ ppm:

There were no humans. No mammals. No birds. The continents were in completely different positions. There were no polar ice caps. Sea levels were hundreds of feet higher. And the sun was actually dimmer, which means it took MORE CO2 to warm the planet back then, not less. You're literally showing us a graph of a planet that would be uninhabitable for human civilization and saying 'see? It was fine!'

Fine for who, Mattie? The trilobites?
And funny you highlighted the Permian period on your own graph, because that CO2 spike coincides with the Permian-Triassic extinction, aka THE GREAT DYING, when 96% of marine species were wiped out. You included the receipt for the worst mass extinction in Earth's history and thought it helped your argument.

'CO2 is not a pollutant!' Neither is water…until it's six feet deep in your living room. Context matters. Rate matters. The issue was never that CO2 exists - it's that we're pumping it out at a rate thousands of times faster than any natural geological process on your cute little graph.

Also - 'https://t.co/zMcKKMSMqa'? A geologist running a climate denial blog like it's a side hustle. Somewhere a rock hammer is crying.

[William A. Wallace, Ph.D. @WilliamWallace]

🫀 The heart doesn’t start beating the way we thought it did.

There is no single “starter switch” for the first heartbeat.

Recently, scientists have captured the exact moment a developing heart goes from complete silence to rhythm, and it happens as a sudden collective event.

Instead of a pre-built pacemaker turning on, many heart cells slowly become electrically active. When enough of them cross a critical threshold, the entire tissue synchronizes at once—producing the first coordinated beat.

The earliest heartbeats are irregular, but they already spread across the heart, driven by calcium-based electrical signals.

The heartbeat begins as a system-level phase transition, one of the clearest examples of emergence in living tissue.

Based on research published in Nature (Jia et al., 2023).

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: China just bitch-slapped Trump over his rant that that he needs Greenland due to Chinese threats:

“We urge the United States to stop using the so-called threat from China as a pretext to pursue its own selfish interests.”
Humiliating.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Even Grok agrees.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

[Vagabundo ilustrado @vagoilustrado]

- El Mercurio, viernes 09 de enero 2026: "La pobreza multidimensional sube".

- El Mercurio, sábado 10 de enero 2026: "La pobreza multidimensional baja".

*(dentro de la nota de este sábado hay una débil aceptación del error, y señalan una "confusión" en lectura de los datos).

[G2 CS @G2CSGO]

Good morning. @ESLCS Cologne 2026 Major:

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-Mirage