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I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

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Walter Martin:
🎵 Watson and the Shark
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Azure: Zone-redundantes NAT Gateway und 400-Gigabit-ExpressRoute
Microsoft erweitert Azure Networking um zonenredundantes NAT Gateway V2 und kündigt 400-Gigabit-ExpressRoute für 2026 an. Neue Sicherheitsfeatures inklusive.

USA tar Venezuelas president. "SOON" postar närstående till Vita huset om Grönland. Tre imperier. En ordning som faller. Europa manar till återhållsamhet. Det räcker inte. Nu är tiden att agera.
https://carlheath.se/den-starkes-ratt-berattel…

Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
Exclusive: The deal would follow a string of major acquisitions as Cisco strengthens its enterprise security portfolio.

In #Lemwerder hat Landwirt Henning Kruse den größten #AgriSolarpark Deutschlands erfolgreich in Betrieb genommen.
Auf 18.000 Hektar Anbaufläche für #Tierfutter wurden 26.000

Lemwerder: Größter Agri-Solarpark Deutschlands besteht Testlauf
Landwirt Henning Kruse hat auf seiner 18.000 Hektar Anbaufläche für Tierfutter 26.000 Solarmodule aufgestellt.

Sources: Veeam, which offers data backup and disaster recovery tools, is in advanced talks to acquire data privacy management software maker Securiti for ~$1.8B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/insigh…

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj48m0vebe

Palo Alto Networks in negotiations to acquire one-year-old Israeli startup Koi for $400 million
The deal would extend the cyber giant’s reach in enterprise endpoint protection amid AI-driven market shifts.

Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-discusses-custom-chips-broadcom

Microsoft Discusses Custom Chips With Broadcom
Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like Microsoft race to acquire more semiconductors and increase their AI products. Nvidia lords over the