My Fediverse Digest for December 2025
A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for December 2025.
Dec 01
10:13 PM
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-12-01
My screener was particularly selective today with just two “picks and shovels” purveyors of the AI compute trade, showing that the market is still hungry for specialized GPU cloud providers aka Neocloud providers.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-12-01
Dec 02
07:06 PM
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-12-02
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI anything companies continues.
• Tutor Intelligence (AI warehouse robots): $34M
• Nevis (AI wealth management agents): $35M
• Ricursive (AI for accelerating AI chip design): $35M
• Zafran (AI threat exposure management): $60M
• Gradium (AI voice startup): $70M
• Axiado (AI server chips): $100M
• Black Forest Labs (AI image generation models): $300M
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-12-02
Dec 04
12:07 AM
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-12-03
Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.
First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.
Wacky Wonderful
NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K
• 8 hours of 4K
• Cozy rocket roar
• Holiday ambiance
Wayback
Segway intro on Good Morning America Dec 3, 2001
• Diane Sawyer rolling
• Charles Gibson bumping
• Dean Kamen inventing
Whoa
Poems can trick AI into helping you make a nuclear weapon
• Jailbreaking chatbots
• Safety guardrail bypass
• Rhymes with destruction
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-12-03
12:44 AM
#11ty build times reduced by +20%
npm uninstall html-minifier-terser
npm install @minify-html/node --save-dev
10:47 PM
Has anyone written the book “Me Prompt Pretty One Day”, yet?
Dec 05
07:53 PM
I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant but the company has been acquired by Meta (an ecosystem I try to avoid).
Users can now download a copy of all their Limitless data and request deletion of their Limitless data.
https://help.limitless.ai/en/articles/13005203-how-to-delete-your-limitless-account-and-data
08:29 PM
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-12-05
🍿 + 💰 One big story this week was Netflix planning to spend ~$83B for Warner Bros Discovery to secure Warner Brothers studio, HBO, and Max.
🤖 + 💰 Also, big story for users of Limitless Pendant… Limitless is joining the Meta devices division. I guess this isn’t shocking considering the increasing numbers of Meta glasses I’ve noticed at conferences.
🤔 While I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant, the company has been acquired by Meta… which is an ecosystem I try to avoid.
🗑️ So, my biggest story of the week is my plan to follow the instructions to download a copy of Limitless data and request deletion of Limitless data that I’ve enjoyed gathering since the first beta.
YMMV.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-12-05
Dec 06
08:53 PM
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-12-06
Friday is for burying news you hope people ignore or sleep through entirely. This Friday night, one story caught my eye like a fictional fiery flying creature soaring into the slow news day journalism night sky.
Meta’s mixed reality glasses project, “Phoenix”, is rising from the ashes not yet rising from the ashes, per a “leaked” memo. The timing of this leak avoids any immediate stock hit to the recent bump and misses the window for any of the weekend long-form think-pieces about Meta’s other burning metaverse cash pile corrections.
76 weeks and the future of Hot Fudge Daily
Also, as a side note, today marks 76 weeks of the Hot Fudge Daily format. Next week, I’ll be starting a brand new format. I’m excited to flip the script a bit. Thank you for subscribing and reading!
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-12-06
Dec 07
10:44 PM
My first thought was a possible IASIP / Kidde commercial crossover where Frank dons a nanofibril ghillie suit and plays the flute.
10:44 PM
I’m going to attempt using GoToSocial’s RSS for driving my workflow over the next few weeks to see if it sticks.
Right now, I’m proficient with VS Code, python, and the prior workflow I optimized for Hot Fudge Daily. Ideally, I’d like to
- Get everything driven from CLI or cron (why not both?)
- Use Markdown that is simple and portable (image processing?)
- Leverage prior python scripts (because refactoring is needed)
- Break up the daily topical (to be more more thinkish)
- Drop the pretense of title’s with dates that lack context (because 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-12-07 doesn’t quite sell it, ya know?)
- Unbury the lede (Descriptions become telling titles)
Dec 09
05:22 PM
Interesting links I’m reading
- AI can interview you about your use of AI: Anthropic did a thing y’all
- Microsoft VibeVoice: Microsoft’s open-source text-to-speech (TTS) of multi-speaker audio and that makes me wonder what the new generation of remix punk community will do with this
- Agentic AI categories for AWS AI Competency: Expecting to see some stratification among AWS Partners (currently dozens)
Dec 10
12:15 AM
I interpret this as succession planning in the open or the intentional telegraphing of active succession planning in the open.
10:13 PM
M&A news has been on a tear lately.
Dec 15
09:31 PM
That thing where you haven’t read anything on social media all day and then all of a sudden you inadvertently become slightly more informed about something that happened earlier that day which only serves to reinforce a bias about what you believe to be true but you second guess yourself because of the fast approaching collapse of implicit trust in an ever widening distance between reality, authenticity, origination, attribution, non-repudiation, and the marvel that is a frothy melange of generative AI plausible deniability.
Or, what I like to call a Modern Monday.
Dec 18
12:26 AM
Late day coffee was a bad choice
Dec 20
02:42 PM
Bluesky oops https://github.com/JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts/commit/3ac7ffa29f3965bcf5da424036ab79524a606f04
06:54 PM
Apple Intelligence
08:18 PM
TIL what is possible on a trombone 🤯 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS46Eh4DgE
08:27 PM
NIST be like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAB4uGGquX4
10:43 PM
Prompt: Create a dual-axis chart comparing Google+ (red) and Google Gemini (blue) across three phases: Launch Phase, Active/Standalone Peak, and Total Ecosystem Reach. Use a grouped bar chart for Monthly Active Users (Millions) on the primary Y-axis with data points for G+ [25, 300, 540] and Gemini [90, 650, 2000]. Overlay trend lines for Average Session Duration (Minutes) on the secondary Y-axis with data points for G+ [0.5, 0.1, 0.05] and Gemini [3.0, 11.0, 1.5]. Annotate all bars and line points with their respective values and include a clear legend.
Dec 21
08:15 PM
Sunday funday
https://github.com/JayCuthrell/svc.fudge.org
Dec 23
01:49 AM
#11ty build times update for my Linode 2 GB
main ± time NODE_OPTIONS=–max-old-space-size=3072 npm run build
> eleventy-excellent@4.3.3 build
> npm run build:11ty && pagefind --site dist
> eleventy-excellent@4.3.3 build:11ty
> cross-env ELEVENTY_ENV=production eleventy --quiet
moments later…
🚀 Found 823 SVG(s) to convert to JPEG…
✨ JPEG conversion complete.
[11ty] Copied 789 Wrote 1707 files in 140.09 seconds (82.1ms each, v3.1.2)
Not too shabby…
Running Pagefind v1.4.0 (Extended)
Wrapping up for search…
Source: “dist”
Output: “dist/pagefind”
[Walking source directory]
Found 877 files matching **/*.
[Parsing files]
Found a data-pagefind-body element on the site.
↳ Ignoring pages without this tag.
[Reading languages]
Discovered 1 language: en
[Building search indexes]
Total:
Indexed 1 language
Indexed 877 pages
Indexed 22136 words
Indexed 0 filters
Indexed 0 sorts
Finished in 3.346 seconds
NODE_OPTIONS=–max-old-space-size=3072 npm run build 66.21s user 36.38s system 62% cpu 2:44.52 total
11:01 PM
Congrats to the ISRO-NSIL team on LVM3-M6 / AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Block-2 🚀🛰️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNpY3wLE3nE
Dec 25
04:15 PM
most of my social media was nuked from orbit but I’ll see if I can find the backups… but based on just my blog and newsletter output…
============================================================
PUNCTUATION FREQUENCY BY YEAR
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1998
Em Dashes | (2)
2000
Em Dashes | (2)
2001
Em Dashes | (2)
2002
Em Dashes | (3)
2004
Em Dashes | (2)
2005
Em Dashes | (24)
2007
Em Dashes | (6)
2008
Em Dashes | (23)
2009
Em Dashes | (2)
2010
Em Dashes | █ (33)
2011
Em Dashes | (7)
2012
Em Dashes | █ (35)
2013
Em Dashes | █ (28)
2014
Em Dashes | ██ (70)
2015
Em Dashes | █████ (141)
2016
Em Dashes | (19)
2017
Em Dashes | █ (26)
2018
Em Dashes | (4)
2019
Em Dashes | ███ (82)
2020
Em Dashes | █ (50)
2021
Em Dashes | ████ (111)
2022
Em Dashes | ███████████████████████████████████ (895)
2023
Em Dashes | ██████████ (263)
2024
Em Dashes | █████████████████████████████████ (859)
2025
Em Dashes | ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ (1272)
05:18 PM
Happy Hollandaise
https://www.pbs.org/food/recipes/asparagus-with-vegan-hollandaise-sauce
09:25 PM
Updates
https://svc.fudge.org/?group=all&view-mode=card&classify=none&sort-by=name&sort-direction=asc
10:29 PM
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Dec 27
12:30 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZsQdLlvuk4
Dec 30
01:08 AM
#fediverse testing https://fed.brid.gy/ from #gotosocial
Dec 31
12:58 AM
Oh no… it’s the dreaded year in review post.
I’ve been writing daily for years and can’t recall the last time I took a break. I’ve been late to send or had a few technical hiccups but otherwise… typing and sending.
This year I stopped attempting LinkedIn Newsletters. I decided POSSE, n8n, and python scripts would be my approach to sharing as LinkedIn posts instead with options for Fediverse (originally Mastodon now GoToSocial) and Bluesky.
My LinkedIn traffic was lower this year with only 179,507 Impressions, 4,713 Engagements, and 3,253 Profile Viewers. I set a mini-goal of reaching 6,000 followers by the end of 2025 and as of this email I am sitting at around 5,985.
Oddly enough, my three most popular posts on LinkedIn in 2025 were one mistakenly late published article… and two copy/paste from my actual newsletter / blog.
When I look at the entire year of posts, my reach spikes significantly when I am a “live reporter” for industry events like Tech Field Day, All Things AI, CISE, SXSW, etc.
I traveled a lot this year and reached Diamond levels on Delta, Hilton, and Marriott. So, if that travel level continues in 2026, perhaps I’ll be seeing more spikes in my reach.
As for writing in 2026, I might slow it down a bit. My formulaic approach for Hot Fudge Daily lasted for well over a year but I missed Fudge Factor nerdy stuff.
HNY - Be safe - Be well
