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Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/04/23/sa…

SBF withdraws motion for retrial but leaves option open for after appeal ruling
The convicted former founder of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange withdrew, for now, his motion for retrial, saying he believes he would not face a fair trial.

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

A pittance compared to the actual need.
Trump Admin Commits $7.5 Million to Bring More Protein to Food Banks | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2026/05/21/trump-admin-commits-7-5-million-to-bring-more-protein-to-food-banks/

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/after-nearly-30-years-nasa-realized-this-nea…

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/

Stablecoin bank Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI era
The firm, freshly valued at $1 billion, aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with always-on infrastructure that connects traditional payment systems and stablecoins.

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Deltron 3030:
🎵 Positive Contact
#Deltron3030
https://mixmastermike.bandcamp.com/track/positive-contact-feat-deltron-3030-mario-c-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6mKai3TB6wtorWTX47wHUt

Best practices are contextual.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices

Musik-Tipp: Keta Tusi Pasti – Loco Contigo 
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=193679

Musik-Tipp: Keta Tusi Pasti – Loco Contigo 
Wir haben noch einen Loco-Remix: Loco Contigo (Keta Tusi Pasti)

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…